How to Use valley fever in a Sentence

valley fever

noun
  • Three of them were confirmed by lab tests to have valley fever infections.
    — WIRED, 10 Oct. 2022
  • When wind or farm workers stir up the soil, people can breathe in the fungus, leading to an infection called valley fever.
    — Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Those risks include extreme heat, wildfire smoke, pollution from diesel trucks and diseases such as valley fever.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Lim, Park and Wolke take care of a woman who has valley fever and learn she’s been keeping a secret from her fiance.
    — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
  • That way, people can talk to their doctors about the possibility of having valley fever.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Three new laws address valley fever reporting, testing, and education in the state.
    — NBC News, 17 June 2019
  • Experts raised concerns at the time that valley fever could jeopardize the accuracy of the research.
    — Kunle Falayi, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Over the last several years, cases of valley fever, a disease common to the arid West, have been steadily creeping up.
    — Dr. Adela Wu, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Over the following decades, researchers would discover some important truths about valley fever.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 25 Sep. 2021
  • There is also concern among experts that climate change will see valley fever fungus spreading all along the coast up to Canada.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But quashing valley fever isn’t always a given, even for healthy individuals.
    — Zoya Teirstein, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Symptoms of valley fever often include fatigue, cough, fever, shortness of breath, headache, night sweats, muscle aches or joint pain and rash on upper body or legs.
    — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Thousands of cases of valley fever have been reported so far this year in California, and numbers appear on track to break records.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • English said little attention has yet been paid to his group’s discovery on the site of the soil-dwelling fungus Coccidioides, which causes valley fever.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
  • How valley fever spreads People exposed to the fungus may not get valley fever, which is also called Coccidioidomycosis.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Projections show valley fever has spread well beyond the Southwest because of prolonged drought and rising temperatures.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • In other health news, valley fever is a growing risk in Central California, but few visitors ever get a warning.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • There is no cure for valley fever; doctors use existing antifungal medications that often don’t relieve the symptoms.
    — Jim Robbins, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Residents fear the earth-moving work will increase the threat of valley fever — a fungal respiratory infection that is transmitted in dust.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Plus, because valley fever is a regional disease, a physician needs regional knowledge to recognize its existence.
    — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The infections that triggered their chronic eye inflammation ranged from tuberculosis and syphilis to inhaled fungal blights like valley fever.
    — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2014
  • From a public health standpoint, Antoninka believes biocrust could help reduce the risks associated with inhaling dust, such as asthma or valley fever.
    — AZCentral.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • At the other water extreme, drought in the desert Southwest increases the risk of coccidioidomycosis, a fungal infection known as valley fever.
    — Vijay Limaye, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
  • When Victor Gutierrez contracted valley fever, his family often had to choose between food and his medication.
    — Petra Cahill, NBC News, 17 June 2019
  • That's because valley fever can come back when the monkeys' immune systems are suppressed during research, potentially compromising results.
    — Rob O'Dell, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • That includes the fungal infection valley fever, which lurks in dry Western soils, causes a serious illness resembling pneumonia, and is spreading north as the climate warms.
    — WIRED, 10 Oct. 2022
  • During times of drought, when there are higher-than-usual temperatures alongside lower-than-usual rainfall, valley fever fungus can survive in the soil even when other microbes tend to die off due to the lack of water.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • There are a number of factors that could be impacting the prevalence of valley fever fungus, including that in recent years, climate change has meant California has had higher levels of drought and rainfall.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • That was his argument for vetoing bills to provide grants to rescue marine mammals and sea turtles, to educate Californians about valley fever, and to expand programs for disabled adults.
    — Laurel Rosenhall, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
  • With a return to dry conditions following a rainy winter, Southern Californians are at especially high risk of contracting valley fever this summer.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023

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