Viamet Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Orphan Products Development has granted orphan drug designation to VT-1598 for the treatment of coccidioidomycosis,...

Coccidioidomycosis is typically found in the Southwestern United States, as well as parts of Central and South America; however, since 2010, a total of nine human cases of Valley Fever have been reported...

November 7 through 15 is Valley Fever Awareness Week in Arizona as declared by state Governor Douglas Ducey and health officials in Arizona are stepping up investigations into a increase in Valley fever...

In the last 10 years, infection rates in California and Arizona have risen 400 percent, prompting California to designate August as Valley Fever Awareness Month. Valley Fever is caused by the inhalation...

Public health officials are teaming up to fight a new public health threat in Washington – Valley Fever. Since discovering the fungus that causes Valley Fever in South Central Washington last year,...

A 60-year-old Carlsbad man has died from “sepsis due to Coccidioides immitis pneumonia”, a rare thing in the  state of New Mexico, according to a Current-Argus News report Thursday. The...

NEWS RELEASE PULLMAN, Wash. – A fungus found in semiarid parts of the Southwest that sometimes launches a lethal illness has been identified for the first time in Washington state soil, leading public...

November 16, 2013: Valley fever LISTEN to the podcast here Today’s guest: John Galgiani, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona, Director, Valley Fever Center for Excellence The Outbreak...