Many people who have valley fever experience mild symptoms, including fatigue, cough, fever, headache, shortness of breath, rash, muscle aches and night sweats.

If you've never received a rash from poison oak, ivy or sumac, the rash could last 21 days or longer. If you have had the rash previously, it will last one to 14 days.

California could face another record-breaking year of Valley fever ... a typical cold — though she recalled that her cough lingered a bit longer than normal and she went on to develop a rash ...