Cases of Valley fever are up in San Joaquin County and concerned public health officials are taking the necessary steps to educate the public on how to reduce the risks of getting infected. However, cases in Lodi seem to be relatively low, according to Karen Furst, an assistant public health officer with the county.
“Lodi is one of the areas that doesn’t have many cases. There are some but there aren’t many,” Furst said of the disease that is contracted when coccidioides immitis, a fungus in soil, becomes airborne and is inhaled into the lungs. “We can’t know if people that get Valley fever that live in the Lodi area get it because there are some organisms in the soil there or because they traveled to places where there are higher incidents of the organism in the soil. They may not have actually been exposed in Lodi, they may have been exposed somewhere else.”
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