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.

A new Valley fever vaccine for dogs appears to provide a safe and effective defense against the fungal illness that sickens thousands of pets in Arizona each year, new research by an international ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A Valley laboratory is developing a rapid antibody test to help with a common desert illness. The Mayo Clinic’s Microbiology Laboratory, in partnership with Arizona Sate ...

Patient samples for their project will come from collaborators at the UC Davis Center for Valley Fever and the Valley Fever Institute of Kern Medical Center. The Coccidioides (“cocci’) fungi ...

Valley fever is not contagious and cannot be transmitted from animals to humans. Local residents who develop persistent symptoms of pneumonia, such as fever, cough, chest pain or shortness of ...