{"id":2394,"date":"2023-02-07T11:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2023-02-07T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:58:43","slug":"scientists-fear-valley-fever-may-be-on-the-rise-on-the-move-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/02\/07\/scientists-fear-valley-fever-may-be-on-the-rise-on-the-move-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists fear valley fever may be on the rise, on the move in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/3844262-scientists-fear-valley-fever-may-be-on-the-rise-on-the-move-in-us\/\">The Hill<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valley fever, also known as coccidioidomycosis, is&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/valley-fever-outbreak-arizona-california-b2273127.html\" target=\"_blank\">caused by the fungus<\/a>&nbsp;coccidioides. Spores from the fungus can be found on the ground or uprooted by things like construction work, human activity, or wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a disease we\u2019ve been tracking for a long, long time and actually the fungus that causes it was part of the offensive biowarfare program agents that were considered by several countries, including the United States,\u201d Dr. Aileen Marty, infectious disease specialist and professor at Florida International University,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wgnradio.com\/bob-sirott\/why-is-valley-fever-becoming-more-common\/\">told WGN Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Hill) Valley fever, also known as coccidioidomycosis, is&nbsp;caused by the fungus&nbsp;coccidioides. Spores from the fungus can be found on the ground or uprooted by things like construction work, human activity, or wind. \u201cThis is a disease we\u2019ve been tracking for a long, long time and actually the fungus that causes it was part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}