Weather patterns, construction activity and wildfires can all play a role in outbreaks of valley fever, caused by inhaling a ...

Valley fever (Coccidioidomycosis ... Sestiaga said that his doctor took a chest X-ray showing pneumonia. His breathing became so difficult that he had to go to the emergency room before seeing ...

He found about 3% of those pneumonia patients had Valley fever. If a patient’s X-ray shows a lung cavity, that should be an automatic trigger for Valley fever testing, Meza said. Animals can ...