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California Dept. Of Public Health Investigating Disease Outbreak Among Music Festival Attendees
Valley Fever is caused by dust and dirt, and so far, five festival attendees report they have it.
The California Department of Public Health ( CDPH) is investigating five cases of Valley fever that occurred among people who traveled through Kern County to attend the May 22-27 at Buena Vista Lake, near the city of Bakersfield. So far, three people have been hospitalized, but additional cases linked to attendance at the festival are possible, authorities said to the Fox Weather channel, which first reported the story. “Those are mostly people with severe immunocompromising illnesses underlying this infection,” said Dr. Brad Perkins, chief medical officer at Karius, a company that provides advanced diagnostics for infectious diseases.
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