{"id":7478,"date":"2024-08-27T21:11:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2024-08-27T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:11:15","slug":"valley-fever-in-california-symptoms-protecting-yourself-and-why-cases-are-way-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/27\/valley-fever-in-california-symptoms-protecting-yourself-and-why-cases-are-way-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley Fever in California: Symptoms, Protecting Yourself and Why Cases Are Way Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12001920\/valley-fever-in-california-symptoms-protecting-yourself-and-why-cases-are-way-up\">KQED<\/a> Cases of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/11998703\/valley-fever-cases-are-on-the-rise-in-california-what-to-know-about-the-fungal-disease\">&nbsp;valley fever<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 a lung infection that can cause severe sickness in some people \u2014 are rising across California. And state health officials said they\u2019re seeing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12001154\/valley-fever-rises-after-california-music-festival-experts-warn-of-climate-change-link\">an increasing number of cases of the disease reported&nbsp;<\/a>outside the Central Valley and Central Coast areas where valley fever is traditionally most common \u2014 including cases in Bay Area residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first half of this year alone, more than 5,300 people in California have caught valley fever \u2014 including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/OPA\/Pages\/NR24-018.aspx\">five people who contracted the disease after attending the Lightning in a Bottle music festival<\/a>&nbsp;outside Bakersfield, according to the California Department of Public Health. These cases \u201coccurred among people who traveled through Kern County, California, to attend the outdoor music festival,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three of the festivalgoers were hospitalized with the condition, which is not contagious. More people among the 20,000-plus attendees at the festival may have been affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Cases of valley fever \u2014 a lung infection that can cause severe sickness in some people \u2014 are rising across California. And state health officials said they\u2019re seeing an increasing number of cases of the disease reported outside the Central Valley and Central Coast areas where valley fever is traditionally most common \u2014 including cases in Bay Area residents.  In the first half of this year alone, more than 5,300 people in California have caught valley fever \u2014 including five people who contracted the disease after attending the Lightning in a Bottle music festival outside Bakersfield, according to the California Department of Public Health. These cases \u201coccurred among people who traveled through Kern County, California, to attend the outdoor music festival,\u201d officials said.  Three of the festivalgoers were hospitalized with the condition, which is not contagious. More people among the 20,000-plus attendees at the festival may have been affected.\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"VphxCUWH  YgcUB \">VphxCUWH  YgcUB <\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KQED Cases of&nbsp;valley fever&nbsp;\u2014 a lung infection that can cause severe sickness in some people \u2014 are rising across California. And state health officials said they\u2019re seeing&nbsp;an increasing number of cases of the disease reported&nbsp;outside the Central Valley and Central Coast areas where valley fever is traditionally most common \u2014 including cases in Bay Area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fungal-infection"],"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\/7478","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=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7479,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions\/7479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}