{"id":7605,"date":"2024-09-11T10:04:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:30:13","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-valley-fever-after-19-infected-at-california-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/09\/11\/what-you-need-to-know-about-valley-fever-after-19-infected-at-california-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know about Valley fever after 19 infected at California music festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/valley-fever-after-19-infected-california-music-festival\/story?id=113452381\">ABC News<\/a> Several people were recently infected with a fungal lung infection at an outdoor California music festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Aug. 21, at least 19 people who attended or worked at the &#8220;Lightning in a Bottle&#8221; festival in Kern County in late May tested positive for Valley fever, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/OPA\/Pages\/NR24-22.aspx\">California Department of Public Health<\/a>. At least eight people have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s more, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/news\/dangerous-airborne-fungus-boosted-california-droughts#:~:text=Valley%20fever%20is%20caused%20by,by%20wind%20or%20human%20activity.\">recent study<\/a>&nbsp;found cases of Valley fever have increased dramatically in California over the last two decades and droughts may be playing a role in seasonal peaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/valley-fever-after-19-infected-california-music-festival\/story?id=113452381\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"l  MYLCAK cnpgqItZSoOvgBYap  HO\">l  MYLCAK cnpgqItZSoOvgBYap  HO<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News Several people were recently infected with a fungal lung infection at an outdoor California music festival. As of Aug. 21, at least 19 people who attended or worked at the &#8220;Lightning in a Bottle&#8221; festival in Kern County in late May tested positive for Valley fever, according to the&nbsp;California Department of Public Health. [&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-7605","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\/7605","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=7605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11755,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions\/11755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}