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Valley Fever. This dashboard provides an overview of surveillance data for Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis or “cocci”) in California from 2001–2022. For an overview of data inclusion/exclusion criteria for this dashboard, please see the Technical Notes. For additional surveillance reports and epidemiologic summaries of Valley fever in ...
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Feb 28, 2024 · Valley Fever Awareness Campaign, 2019–2020 Executive Summary (PDF) January 2021. CDPH also periodically publishes more focused Valley fever reports in journals, including surveillance summaries, analyses of hospital and death data, and reports summarizing Valley fever outbreaks. See below for some of CDPH’ s Valley fever publications:
Most people (about 6 in 10) infected with Valley fever have no symptoms, and their bodies will fight off the infection naturally. People who do get sick usually develop symptoms 1−3 weeks after breathing in the fungus. Valley fever usually infects the lungs, and some people can develop respiratory symptoms or pneumonia (a lung infection).
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By 1900 coccidioidomycosis was established as a fungal disease. After an outbreak in the 1930’s in the San Joaquin Valley of California, this disease was given its nickname “San Joaquin Valley Fever,” often shortened further to “Valley Fever.”. The disease threatened national security during World War II when thousands of American ...
Aug 13, 2023 · Annual cases of valley fever in California rose from fewer than 1,500 in 2001 to a high of more than 9,000 in 2019, according to the state’s public health department. In 2021, the last year with ...
Feb 16, 2024 · There’s evidence that Coccidioides is already taking advantage of a warming U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that Valley fever cases in the U.S. rose from 2,271 in 1998 ...
