Valley Fever: The Death Toll Is Rising for the ‘Orphan Disease’
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More people are dying from valley fever than previously thought. Elderly and immunosuppressed people are most at risk.
Just One Breath
Healthy Communities
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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.