Valley fever (as well referred to as Desert rheumatism & California coccidioidomycosis) occurs as fungal disease caused by Coccidioides immitis. These are endemic in certain parts of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and northwestern Mexico.

C. immitis lives around the soil in certain area of the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and two or three more areas in the Western Hemisphere. Contagion is from either inhalation of airborne, fungous particles. A disease is non transmitted from either human to individual.

Diagnostic sickness (40% of instances) unremarkably presents as an influenza-like unwellness sustaining fever, cough, headaches, rash, and myodynia. A select few patients fail to feel better & respond with chronic pulmonic sickness or even far flung disseminated contagion (affecting meninges, soft tissues, joints, & bone). Severe pneumonic disease will acquire around HIV-infected souls.

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