Coccidioidomycosis Coccidioidomycosis is sometimes called san joaquin fever, valley fever, or desertfever because of its prevalence in the farming valleys of California. http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/coccidioidomycosis.jsp
Valley Fever - OhioHealth valley fever was first identified in the san joaquin valley in California.It also occurs throughout the southwestern United States, as well as in Mexico, http://www.ohiohealth.com/healthreference/reference/6B6E2834-3B97-438D-B57239031
IEQ Review: COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS (Valley Fever) as valley fever because the organism is prevalent in the san joaquin valley of In 1977, a major dust storm blew soil from the san joaquin valley up http://www.imakenews.com/pureaircontrols/e_article000302318.cfm
Extractions: Pure Air Control Services and the Environmental Diagnostics Laboratory are pleased to introduce "Under the Scope", a new section of the IEQ REVIEW. There are over 100,000 species of fungi. Many fungi are good and useful (edible mushrooms would be an example of these) while some cause problems (some fungi can injure plants and humans). Every week the IEQ Review will describe a specific microorganism, its morphological origin and potential health effects. If you would like to know about a specific organism and/or would like it published in The IEQ Review please email Dr. Rajiv Sahay with the Environmental Diagnostics Laboratory (EDL) at Pure Air Control Services laboratory@pureaircontrols.com This week we will cover ... COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS (Valley Fever) Coccidioidomycosis, the disease caused by a pathogenic fungus called Coccidioides immitis , is also known as Valley Fever because the organism is prevalent in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California. The fungus, however, can also be reported from certain parts of the southwestern United States and norther Mexico.
Facts About Valley Fever valley fever which gets its name from California s san joaquin valley, notArizona s valley of the Sun - is a non-contagious lung infection common in the http://www.azcentral.com/health/wellness/articles/0830valleyfever31facts.html
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Extractions: Watch the Dust Fly The headline read "Oxnard man succumbs to valley fever." The article in the Ventura County Star linked the disease ( coccidioidomycosis ) to a dust cloud that resulted from the January 1994, 6.7 magnitude Northridge earthquake. Spores of a fungus occurring naturally in local soil were carried in a dust cloud over Simi Valley where it caused a miniature epidemic, according to Ventura County Public Health Officer, Dr. Gary Feldman. Valley fever accounted for four deaths out of 52 reported cases in 1993 and at least five deaths since the 1994 earthquake. And while Feldman does not consider it a public health threat, he states that there might be more people who have the disease who don't know it because of its flu-like symptoms. Clearly, valley fever presents a concern, if not a threat, whenever soil dust enters the human environment, as it invariably does with construction projects, unpaved roads and highway shoulders, vacant lots and fields and agricultural operations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has addressed this problem by establishing dust air pollution standards based on particles with "aerodynamic diameters less than 10 micrometers" expressed as "PM
K-Jewel 99.3 FM Radio Fresno, CA valley fever Do you now what disease was discovered in the san joaquin valley?Its valley fever, also known as desert rheumatism. http://www.kjwl.com/features.asp?commentary_id=378
Valley Fever - Talk Medical Reliable medical information on valley fever. The disease is commonly foundin California s san joaquin valley, southern and central Arizona, http://www.talkmedical.com/diseases-disorders/1013/Valley-Fever
Extractions: Tell a friend Valley fever is an infection, usually in the lungs, caused by the fungus Coccidioides immitis. It is called valley fever because the fungus is commonly found in the soil of the valleys of the southwestern US, Mexico, and parts of Central and South America. Valley fever may cause a range of mild symptoms, and a mild lung infection. Or the infection may be severe and progressive, and spread throughout the body, which can be fatal. Many times valley fever causes no symptoms at all. If symptoms do develop, they usually appear 1 to 3 weeks after infection, and may include: fever backache and headache red, spotty rash appearing 1 to 2 days after the fever begins swelling of the extremities, especially the knees and ankles chest pain chills nasal congestion cough, which may bring up sputum and even blood
THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 13, Ch. 158, Systemic Fungal Diseases BR (valley fever; san joaquin fever). A disease caused by the fungus Coccidioidesimmitis, usually occurring in a primary form as an acute benign asymptomatic http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section13/chapter158/158c.jsp
Life & Times - Transcript - 07/13/05 It s a fungus called valley fever, valley as in the Central valley. end ofthe san joaquin valley about a hundred twelve miles north of Los Angeles. http://www.kcet.org/lifeandtimes/archives/200507/20050713.php
Bakersfield.com | Valley Fever: Searching For The Vaccine Construction workers have a higher risk of contracting valley fever because caused by inhaling spores from a fungus native to the san joaquin valley and http://www.bakersfield.com/special/valleyfever/story/5501196p-5490235c.html
Extractions: Advanced Search Search Obituaries MOST READ STORIES Inland valleys fast becoming 'in' spot to live Two men busted at school Funeral services for September 9 Three arrested in pot seizure ... MOST E-MAILED ITEMS NEWS Local California Nation World ... Podcasts NEW Special Reports Email Newsletters Obituaries Weather ... Archive 29 EYEWITNESS NEWS Local Stories Smart Woman Eyewitness Sports Station Info ... Job Opportunities ENTERTAINMENT Entertainment News Dining Music Theatre ... Weird News COMMUNITY Newcomer's Guide Community Blogs Californian In Education CLASSIFIEDS Search Classifieds Place a Classified Ad Employment Zone Real Estate Link ... Autos SUBSCRIBER SERVICES Home Delivery Customer Service Digital Edition Press Pass THE CALIFORNIAN Contact Us Submissions Advertise About Us Print Story E-mail Story ... Blogs Alex Horvath / the Californian Framers work on new homes recently in a tract on the corner of Jewetta Avenue and Noriega Road in northwest Bakersfield. Construction workers have a higher risk of contracting valley fever because they work around areas where soil has been disturbed. RELATED LINKS Learning from the disease: A multimedia presentation headcount=1; leadcount=-1; timecount=-1; showlabel=1;
AP Wire 07/22/2005 News From The San Joaquin Valley News from the san joaquin valley. Associated Press. HANFORD, Calif. The elderlyman had other serious health problems, but West Nile fever tipped the http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/12199626.htm
RKI Hospital Hygiene Coccidioidomycosis (valley fever, san joaquin fever, Desert rheumatism).Coccidioidomycosis (valley fever, san joaquin fever, Desert rheumatism) http://www.rki.de/cln_011/nn_231710/EN/Content/Prevention/Hospital__Hygiene/Cocc
Extractions: The accidental inoculation of spherules in pus or the like can, in rare cases, lead to the formation of granuloma in the skin. 1 â 4 weeks. Dissemination can occur years after the primary disease of the lung. The primary infection of the lung takes a clinically inapparent course in about 60 % of cases. The primary infection begins as a disease of the respiratory tract and is associated with flu-like symptoms such as fever, ague and coughing, and may then include all transition stages up to severe pneumonia with abscess formation and pleurisy. About 20% of the patients with primary infections develop an Erythema nodosum or Erythema multiforme. A commonly associated arthritis is known as âDesert rheumatismâ. In people with an intact immune system, the primary infection is usually cleared with no lasting symptoms. In some patients, fibrotic or calcified coin lesions, in part also cavernous alterations, remain in the lung. A dissemination of the disease occurs in about 1% of the patients. Although these are often immunosuppressed, patients without predisposing underlying diseases are also affected; Note: chronic pulmonary infections that are not adequately treated can also disseminate! The possibility of pregnancy as a predisposing factor is under discussion, although this hypothesis remains controversial. Disseminated coccidiomycosis can be associated with abscess formation and granulomatous lesions in the entire body (particularly skin, subcutis, peritoneum and bones) including manifestations in the
Extractions: Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, California, USA Download Article Coccidioides immitis , the primary pathogenic fungus that causes coccidioidomycosis, is most commonly found in the deserts of the southwestern United States and Central and South America. During the early 1990s, the incidence of coccidioidomycosis in California increased dramatically. Even though most infections are subclinical or self-limited, the outbreak is estimated to have cost more than $66 million in direct medical expenses and time lost from work in Kern County, California, alone. In addition to the financial loss, this pathogen causes serious and life-threatening disseminated infections, especially among the immunosuppressed, including AIDS patients. This article discusses factors that may be responsible for the increased incidence of coccidioidomycosis (e.g., climatic and demographic changes and the clinical problems of coccidioidomycosis in the immunocompromised) and new approaches to therapy and prevention. . In what sense is coccidioidomycosis an emerging infectious disease? Coccidioidomycosis is not a new disease; it was first recognized and reported slightly more than 100 years ago by a medical student in Argentina
Coccidioidomycosis -- California, 1991-1993 Epidemiology of acute coccidioidomycosis with erythema nodosum ( san joaquin or valley fever ). Am J Public Health 1940;3060011. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031453.htm
Extractions: Coccidioidomycosis is an infection caused by the fungus Coccidioides immitis, which resides in the soil in some areas of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. Infection can occur when airborne, infective arthroconidia are inhaled. Symptomatic coccidioidomycosis, which occurs in approximately 40% of all infections, has a wide clinical spectrum, including mild influenza-like illness, severe pneumonia, and disseminated disease. Beginning in 1991, the number of cases of coccidioidomycosis reported annually to the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) increased dramatically (1) ( ). This report summarizes the occurrence of coccidioidomycosis in California during 1991-1993. In 1991, 1200 cases of coccidioidomycosis were reported to CDHS, compared with an annual average of 428 reported cases during 1981-1990. The number of reported cases continued to increase during 1992 (4516 cases) but declined during 1993 (4137 cases). During 1991-1993, most (70%) cases in California were reported from Kern County in the San Joaquin Valley, where the incidence of coccidioidomycosis is high; in contrast, during 1981-1990, Kern County accounted for 52% of all cases. Coccidioidomycosis surveillance data are reported to CDHS by the counties as weekly case counts only. Reported by: BA Jinadu, MD, G Welch, R Talbot, PhD, Kern County Health Dept; J Caldwell, PharmD, R Johnson, MD, D Blume, PhD, H Einstein, MD, T Larwood, MD, M Hargrave, Bakersfield; RJ Jackson, MD, SB Werner, MD, P Duffey, PhD, GW Rutherford, III, MD, State Epidemiologist, California Dept of Health Svcs; T Kirkland, MD, San Diego; D Pappagianis, MD, Davis; F Swatek, PhD, Long Beach, California. DM Dixon, PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health. Div of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC.
'Valley Fever' Plaguing Our Overseas Troops? The cause of the disease turned out to be valley fever Mexico that got itsname from the agricultural area of the san joaquin valley in California. http://www.useless-knowledge.com/columnists/bobbieoneill/article17.html
Extractions: The headline read, Army stumped on cause of pneumonia in troops serving in Iraq, Afghanistan It took me back to 1948, during the Korean War, when I was living in Tucson, Arizona. My husband, a reporter for the for the Tucson Daily Citizen, was working on a story about the mysterious pneumonia like disease striking Black airmen who were being reassigned from the deep south states Alabama , Georgia, Mississippi, - to our local Davis Monthan Air Force Base. . . The cause of the disease turned out to be Valley Fever coccidioidomycosis, a lung disorder, common in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico that got its name from the agricultural area of the San Joaquin Valley in California. It is caused by a fungus, somewhat like yeast or mildew - Coccidioides immitis cocci for short - which grows in soils in areas of low rainfall, high summer temperatures and moderate winter temperatures. Hmmm, I thought, sounds like the desert areas Iraq and Afghanistan .
Extractions: As a native Texan, I know a little bit about the thing called summertime heat. It becomes a living oppressive thing all around you that has absolutely no escape. It can make one a little crazy as the days pass in the blinding glare and it might make one crazy enough to commit murder. Apparently, despite the picture postcard perfect image of The San Joaquin Valley in California, the heat there has the same effect. According to these three authors and this enjoyable collection, The Valley has a very violent and dark side. Each story in this collection from these authors is very good with many of then having a twist at the end. They depict a variety of situations, characters, economic spectrums and lifestyles, with sometimes amusing, and often times chilling results. This is a good one to read and if you are interested in collections, one worthy of your consideration.
UNL Science News 03/09/04 UNL Biological Development Facility to Work on valley fever Vaccine and itsassociation with California s san joaquin valley was realized during the http://www.unl.edu/pr/science/030904ascifi.html
Extractions: Lincoln, Neb., March 9, 2004 The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Biological Process Development Facility, directed by Michael Meagher, professor of chemical engineering, will begin work on process research and development to produce a vaccine for human clinical trials against coccidioidomycosis, or Valley Fever. After four years of extensive research at five other research centers, scientists with the Valley Fever Vaccine Project, administered by the California State University, Bakersfield Foundation, announced in February that as a result of successful animal studies, including on-going primate trials, a candidate vaccine has been identified and that pharmaceutical development will begin. As a first step, the California State University, Bakersfield Foundation recently entered into an agreement with UNL to develop a fermentation and purification process suitable for clinical trials of the vaccine. The UNL Biological Process Development Facility, located in the Department of Chemical Engineering in the new Othmer Hall, is one of the few university facilities in the United States that can take vaccines and therapeutics from the recombinant gene stage to a product suitable for human clinical trials as mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
