Residents and doctors in the Pacific Northwest now face a diagnosis they were never trained to expect. Valley fever, a fungal ...

Valley fever is a fungal lung infection that occurs when you inhale spores from Coccidioides immitis or Coccidioides posadaii. The disease is also called coccidioidomycosis. Symptoms include cough, ...

Some areas of the U.S. are experiencing a recent uptick in cases of a fungal lung infection called valley fever. Dr. Jesse Bracamonte, a Mayo Clinic family medicine physician, explains what you need ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rob Purdie, right, who has valley fever, checks in with his doctor at the same clinic where he serves as the program development ...

In the den of his small apartment in Stockton, 56-year-old Rex Dangerfield sits at a table. The walls are bare, and the space stripped down to essentials. The T-shirt he wears, stamped with the words ...

A family member tends to her husband, who is suffering from Valley Fever and other medical problems, in their apartment in Madera, Calif. Valley Fever, a little-known disease infecting more people ...

The latest California numbers suggest 2025 will be another record-smashing year for valley fever, the illness linked to drought and precipitation and spread by fungal spores. There were 6,761 cases ...

Patches of dirt in both city and rural settings can contain the spores of the fungus that causes Valley fever and are released whenever the ground is disturbed. Photo by Jack Orleans/Cronkite News ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of the fungus Coccidioides immitis. An outbreak of Valley fever among attendees and workers at an outdoor music ...

Several people were recently infected with a fungal lung infection at an outdoor California music festival. As of Aug. 21, at least 19 people who attended or worked at the "Lightning in a Bottle" ...

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