In the News
February 1, 2017
Researchers at UC Merced are playing key roles in the new UC Valley Fever Research Initiative, studying how the Valley fever fungus, Coccidioides immitis, causes disease in its mammalian hosts, and identifying the genes involved in this process.
November 2, 2016
Congressional leaders from Arizona and California joined researchers from the University of Arizona and Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix to discuss progress in the search for a cure to Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis).
October 13, 2016
A major announcement today regarding a deadly disease prominent in Kern County. Kern Medical is starting a year-long clinical trial studying valley fever in hopes to better treat patients.
August 10, 2016
Doctors who need to test their patients for the potentially fatal Valley Fever disease will no longer have to rely on blood tests that take weeks to process and have questionable accuracy.
March 23, 2016
In mid-March, dust storms hit southern New Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border region. Fallow fields, construction sites, and dry patches of desert threw their sands into the wind, reducing highway visibility and causing people's eyes to water and throats to constrict. This week, the National Weather Service issued a High Wind Warning—and officials worried about highway closures and fire risks.
October 26, 2015
The fight against disease can be a long, hard road. To be sure, the hardest part is often to understand what is causing someone to be ill. In the Central Valley, perhaps no disease is a better example of this than cocciodiomycosis or valley fever.
June 13, 2014
A bipartisan task force made up of lawmakers across the Southwest, including Representative Devin Nunes, scored a victory in Washington this week in its quest to add the fungus that causes Valley fever to a list of pathogens the government has a heightened interest in combating.
July 25, 2013
Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy made another move in his crusade against valley fever Wednesday, announcing the new “Congressional Valley Fever Task Force.”