Dust Bowl-ification of U.S. Southwest leads to 8-fold jump in Valley Fever cases

Dust Bowl-ification of U.S. Southwest leads to 8-fold jump in Valley Fever cases

Posted by on Jun 13, 2017 @ 11:31 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: June 12, 2017

The infection rate of Valley Fever in the Southwest United States has gone up a stunning 800 percent from 2000 to 2011, as dust storms have more than doubled. New research directly links the rise in Valley Fever to the rise in dust storms, which in turn is driven by climate change. Valley Fever, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls “a fungal lung...

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