For the second year in a row, California is on track to break records for valley fever cases. Here's how you can avoid the ...

Tammy Takara thought she had the flu. Instead she contracted the disease rising across Ventura County — valley fever.

Growing a third of America's crops and generating billions of dollars each year, California's Central Valley is both an ...

For the second year in a row, California is on track to have a record-breaking number of valley fever cases, which public ...

One of America's richest farming hubs is facing a hidden threat that could jeopardize the health of local residents and the ...

Groups at higher risk include firefighters. The surge of valley fever across Ventura County ... the infection nicknamed for one of its hotbeds, California's San Joaquin Valley.

The Coccidioides (“cocci’) fungi that cause Valley Fever grow in the soils of California and the desert ... of compromised immunity and the genetic risk factors that allow severe disease ...

The main risk factor for valley fever is basic ... primarily Arizona and the San Joaquin Valley area of California. Valley fever has also been found in Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, parts ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona hope a $2.27 million federal grant will help them build a genetic profile of people who get severely ill from valley fever. Some genetic factors are ...