A lack of awareness and timely testing for this potentially deadly disease has had serious consequences for some.
Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Top Stories
Valley Fever: The Death Toll Is Rising for the ‘Orphan Disease’
More people are dying from valley fever than previously thought. Elderly and immunosuppressed people are most at risk.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Top Stories
Valley Fever Cases Increase, Yet Vaccine Remains Elusive
Up to 150,000 people are stricken with the potentially fatal disease each year, yet the government and the pharmaceuticals industry won’t fund research for a vaccine.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Top Stories
Where Is Federal Funding for Valley Fever?
Research for valley fever remains low on the list of federal funding priorities despite having greater impact than other diseases that receive millions in taxpayer dollars.
Posted inTop Stories
Just One Breath
Valley fever, a disease people contract from breathing fungal spores contained in soil, has reached epidemic proportions in parts of California. Yet it is so little known and misunderstood that people have died without ever having known they had it.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Investigative, Top Stories
Neighbors Say Street Project Is Hazardous to Their Health
Residents of a mobile home neighborhood beside the Gene Autry
Way expansion in Anaheim say construction is causing them both
aggravation and health problems.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Top Stories
Supervisors Balk at Funding for Obesity Programs
Board members seem to prefer rejecting millions in grants to
being linked to Obamacare.
Posted inCountywide, Santa Ana, Top Stories, Transportation
Santa Ana Councilwoman Pedals Obesity Prevention
Michele Martinez, like first lady Michelle Obama, has made
fighting obesity her signature issue. She has her work cut out for
her in Orange County.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Top Stories
State Not Backing Its Own Hospital Infection Data
In a rare form of self-flagellation, the state Department of
Public Health is tearing apart its own work that took more than a
year and millions of dollars to complete.
Posted inInvestigative, Top Stories
State Releases Flawed Hospital Infection Data
California health officials comply with a new state law that
requires the reporting of infections contracted in hospitals, but
they warn the public against putting any stock in them.
