Research into treatment for Valley fever, a fungal disease, continues, as does work on a vaccine to prevent it.

Valley fever, also called coccidioidomycosis or "cocci," is an infectious disease caused by the Coccidioides fungus that grows in the soil and dirt in some areas of California. Valley fever is a lung ...

Rob Purdie, right, who has valley fever, checks in with his doctor at the same clinic where he serves as the program development coordinator at the Valley Fever Institute at Kern Medical on March 22, ...

"For example, current diagnostics require blood or other specimens to be sent to an outside laboratory for testing and ...

PHOENIX, Ariz. (KFSN) -- Researchers at the University of Arizona are studying a so-called "orphan" disease; that's anything but rare in one part of the United States. Most people who get it are ...

(NEXSTAR) – Cases of valley fever, a fungal disease caused by spores found within soil in (mostly) the Southwestern part of the U.S., has been rising in recent decades, prompting warnings from local ...

SALINAS, CA − A lethal fungus has quietly spread in the soil across the West. Now, it’s threatening areas well beyond the dusty deserts and valleys where it likely originated. Valley fever, a disease ...