Residents and doctors in the Pacific Northwest now face a diagnosis they were never trained to expect. Valley fever, a fungal lung infection caused by Coccidioides spores inhaled from contaminated ...

In the den of his small apartment in Stockton, 56-year-old Rex Dangerfield sits at a table. The walls are bare, and the space stripped down to essentials. The T-shirt he wears, stamped with the words ...

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This article was originally featured on The Conversation. As the climate warms, the southwestern U.S. is increasingly experiencing weather whiplash as the region swings from drought to flooding and ...

Valley fever is an emerging fungal disease in the western United States that most often causes flu-like symptoms, but can also cause dangerous or even deadly complications. By analyzing data on ...

Last week, a long, narrow section of the Earth’s atmosphere funneled trillions of gallons of water eastward from the Pacific tropics and unleashed it on California. This weather event, known as an ...

ON THE CRACKDOWN EFFORTS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO NEW THIS MORNING, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO WENT TO AN ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL IN KERN COUNTY COULD HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO A SERIOUS FUNGAL INFECTION.

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There's something in the air in New Mexico. No, really. A new study by a team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the New Mexico Department of Health and the state's research universities ...