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Dust-up over dust storm link to ‘Valley Fever’ disease

Researchers are divided over whether rising cases of the fungal infection in the United States can be linked to dust storms.
  1. Virginia Gewin

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What qualifies as a dust storm? That is one of the questions at the centre of a debate over the phenomenon’s role in the spread of Valley Fever, an infectious disease caused by inhaling the soil-dwelling fungi Coccidioides, in the Western United States.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02089-w

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