After decades without an extensive survey of fungal death in America, the results are in. Fungi are more disease, more death, and is severely undercounted. Mitsuru Toda, PhD, Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the CDC’s Mycotic Diseases Branch and Tom M. Chiller, MD, the chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch at the CDC evaluated deaths…
In Valley Fever the constant barrage of misinformation is astounding. You can’t be reinfected…until you are. It will probably be flu-like symptoms…unless it disseminates. It probably won’t affect you unless you’re in a risk group…until it does. Science proves there is enduring, lifelong immunity to Valley Fever…unless a reactivation takes place, sometimes even decades after…
Sometimes people ask how it is possible that so many doctors and health care professionals do not understand Valley Fever, or how so much outdated information is common in the study of this disease. An MIT researcher says gaseous clouds could carry droplets of all sizes up to 27 feet, though doctors contend 6 feet…
Many symptoms of COVID-19 and influenza overlap, here’s how to spot the differences. Valley Fever is regarded to have many flu-like symptoms, as discussed on the symptoms page. With high interest in the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak more information may be useful. “There is so much overlap in symptoms between flu and COVID-19 but a…
The CDC is making the third week in September “Fungal Disease Awareness Week.” Considering the how fungi are chronically disregarded as a cause of medical problems worldwide, this is an important and useful idea. Some fungal diseases go undiagnosed and cause serious infections in people in the United States and around the world, leading to…