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Oct 13, 2016
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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.
Aug 10, 2016
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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.
Mar 23, 2016
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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.
Oct 26, 2015
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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.
Jun 13, 2014
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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.
Jul 25, 2013
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Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy made another move in his crusade against valley fever Wednesday, announcing the new “Congressional Valley Fever Task Force.”