Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Study: Valley Fever Killed 3 Prison Workers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. February 7, 2014 (AP)
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press
Illness caused by a soil-borne fungus killed three employees at two California prisons in recent years and sickened 103 others, according to a federal health care agency report made public Thursday.
Employees at Avenal and Pleasant Valley state prisons near Fresno appear more likely to contract valley fever than adults in the surrounding population, the report by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said.
The institute found that the employee deaths and illnesses occurred between January 2009 and last June.
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In California, rates of reported fever cases increased more than six-fold over the past decade, from about 700 in 1998 to more than 5,500 cases reported in 2011, according to the CDC.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/study-valley-fever-killed-prison-workers-22399452
SACRAMENTO, Calif. February 7, 2014 (AP)
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press
Illness caused by a soil-borne fungus killed three employees at two California prisons in recent years and sickened 103 others, according to a federal health care agency report made public Thursday.
Employees at Avenal and Pleasant Valley state prisons near Fresno appear more likely to contract valley fever than adults in the surrounding population, the report by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said.
The institute found that the employee deaths and illnesses occurred between January 2009 and last June.
...
In California, rates of reported fever cases increased more than six-fold over the past decade, from about 700 in 1998 to more than 5,500 cases reported in 2011, according to the CDC.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/study-valley-fever-killed-prison-workers-22399452