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Extractions: We also had a very well attended and lively SJV Chapter meeting up in Monterey. Thanks to all who attended. Some of the big topics of discussion included research grants (see separate article), upcoming TWS Western Section and National meetings, Chapter elections (see separate article), and workshops that the Chapter may sponsor this year. It was good to see so many members attend, including student members. The Chapter had a busy year in 1998, and looks to be equally busy in 1999. This high level of activity earned the Chapter the 1998 Chapter of the Year Award which we received at the Western Section Annual meeting. Upcoming activities include the San Joaquin Valley Natural Communities Conference at CSU-Bakersfield on March 25, and business and general Chapter meetings in April. Important topics to be discussed include a Chapter-sponsored workshop, a possible public education project, and other activities. Please feel free to contact me if you have any ideas for speakers at Chapter meetings, possible Chapter activities, and issues that the Chapter might want to get involved in. Hope to see you at the Natural Communities Conference and upcoming Chapter meetings!
Extractions: (Valley Fever; San Joaquin Fever) A disease caused by the fungus Coccidioides immitis, usually occurring in a primary form as an acute benign asymptomatic or self-limited respiratory infection, occasionally disseminating to cause focal lesions in skin, subcutaneous tissues, lymph nodes, bones, liver, kidneys, meninges, brain, or other tissues. Coccidioidomycosis is endemic in the southwestern USA, including the central valley of California, Arizona, parts of New Mexico, and Texas west of El Paso. The area extends into northern Mexico, and foci occur in parts of Central America and Argentina. Infections are acquired by inhalation of spore-laden dust. Because of travel and delayed onset of clinical manifestations, symptomatic infections sometimes may become evident outside endemic areas. Once inhaled
Vaccine Project Coccidioidomycosis, or valley fever, is a fungal disease that commonly strikesresidents of Californias san joaquin valley; agricultural workers are http://vfce.arl.arizona.edu/vaccine_project.htm
Extractions: The California HealthCare Foundation Valley Fever Project Backgound: Coccidioidomycosis, or Valley Fever, is a fungal disease that commonly strikes residents of Californias San Joaquin Valley; agricultural workers are particularly hard hit. The disease is caused by cocci spores that lie dormant in the soil. As these spores become airborne where workers turn the soil, they become lodged in the lungs, where they may cause pneumonia, and in some cases, death. Because the laborers who are exposed to Valley Fever are a highly mobile and underrepresented population, this disease goes largely unacknowledged in the health care community. Early detection and soil treatments have been used to fight this disease, but only a vaccine can completely eradicate the problem. STRATEGY In 1997, the Foundation awarded a grant of up to 6 million to the Center for Biomedical Research at California State University, Bakersfield and the University of California, San Francisco, to support the development of a vaccine to combat Valley Fever. Five investigators from the Medical College of Ohio; University of Texas, San Antonio; University of Arizona, Tucson; University of California, San Diego; and University of California, Davis will collaborate with the funding partners to produce the antigens for a vaccine to be brought to clinical trials. It is anticipated that these trials will begin early in 2000.
Frequently Asked Questions valley fever is known to be endemic (widely found) to portions of Sacramento valley,all of the san joaquin valley, desert regions and southern portions of. http://www.casa.arizona.edu/~peter/valleyfever/web/page7.html
Re: San Joaquin Valley at 195227 if you haven't been exposed to it however, valley feveris common to the san joaquin valley. valley fever is a soil http://www.gtlsys.com/FossilForum/Archive/messages/1138.html
Extractions: Fossil Collector Archive Message Archive Index Re: San Joaquin Valley Posted by Betty Cunningham on November 20, 1998 at 12:54:37: In Reply to: Re: San Joaquin Valley posted by W.D. Morton on November 10, 1998 at 19:52:27: if you haven't been exposed to it however, Valley Fever is common to the San Joaquin valley. Valley Fever is a soil-borne spore that infects the lungs, and sets you up permanently as it's host. It is present year round but becomes most active in the summer and fall (dry windy times of year). I understand there is now a simple skin test that your doctor can do to find out if you would be suseptable to the spore. I suggest you find out more about Valley Fever before you dig in the San Joaquin valley. I ended up with it after digging in San Bonito county.
Re: San Joaquin Valley Any fossil sites in san joaquin valley? !. Bakersfield mostly shark between HartPark and Lake Ming across from soccor field warning danger of valley fever. http://www.gtlsys.com/FossilForum/Archive/messages/1089.html
Extractions: 2.Near Valley A. new cuyama shells expecially rare type of sand dollar B. Coalinga , shells of all types C. Mojave area, Castle Butte good palm root - harder to get nowdays D. Claymine road near Boron - highly agatized wood, rough digging in hard ash. E. Edison, some really neat palm root in hills behind town. probably could come up with more. This should be enough for a few years work. Will
Extractions: First, I would like to sincerely thank the individuals who served the Chapter during the past year. Karen Brown continued the rejuvenation process initiated by Steve Juarez. Among her many accomplishments were the very successful Farm and Ranch Habitat Workshop, and her efforts to further increase communication among Chapter members. Steve Juarez served the Chapter not only as Past-President, but also as the Chapter Representative to the Western Section, and has volunteered to serve in the latter capacity again in 1999. Gerrit Buma was our Secretary this past year, but has moved on to a new job opportunity outside the San Joaquin Valley. Larry Saslaw served as our Treasurer for the past 2 years. Mark Otten has done a great job as newsletter editor and has volunteered to continue in this capacity in 1999. Thanks again to all of these individuals!
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Extractions: The Valley Fever Vaccine Project of the Americas Donates $45,000 to the CSU Bakersfield Foundation The Valley Fever Vaccine Project of the Americas, a Rotary Club International District 5240 project, has donated $45,000 to the California State University, Bakersfield Foundation to help continue the search for a Valley Fever vaccine. The money will be used for genomic database support at the San Diego Veterans Administration Medical Center. The genomic research - analyzing sequence information for identifying genes encoding new antigens - is being conducted by one of the project's investigators, Dr. Theo Kirkland of the San Diego VA Medical Center. "We are very grateful to the members of the Valley Fever Vaccine Project of the Americas for your continued support of the activities of our investigators," said Richard Hector, director of the Valley Fever Vaccine Project, administered by CSUB. "The funds provided by your group are of great importance to insure that we accomplish the overall goals of the project." "I can't thank the Rotary Club enough for their continued support of this important project," CSUB President Tomas A. Arciniega said. "Their continued support has helped enable the project to make the great strides it has in finding a vaccine for this disease that has affected so many people in the southern San Joaquin Valley."
CSU Newsline - CSU Bakersfield Valley Fever Project Advances with the san joaquin valley, particularly Kern County, was realized during the firstthree decades of the 20th century. The valley fever Vaccine Project began http://www.calstate.edu/newsline/Archive/02-03/021108-Bak.shtml
Extractions: "This marks a major change," Hector told the Council of 100 at its Wednesday meeting at CSUB. The Council of 100 is a group of area business and community leaders who meet quarterly with CSUB officials to learn of the resources the university can provide. "This marks a change from a research process to a developmental process." The valley fever project has come a long way since it began in 1997, to the point where Hector is optimistic that it will eventually produce a vaccine. "Will there be a vaccine?" he asked rhetorically? "Yes, but it will require time, effort, funds - and to a certain extent luck. What's the time frame? Our short-term goal is to have a phase-one vaccine – one for preliminary trials - by 2004. But I don't want to mislead anyone about a vaccine's availability any time soon, because this is a long path.
Eeggs.com - TV : Shows : E.R : Valley Fever younger. She also mentions that in order to have had valley fever he must have grown up in the san joaquin valley in California. Dr http://www.eeggs.com/items/23722.html
Extractions: Slip-Up Search Valley Fever Rating: of 10 (150 votes cast) From: BrianCardoza ( briancardoza@hotmail.com Requires: A television Easter Egg: Dr. Kovac and Abby were mugged while walking down a Chicago street, and Dr. Kovac kills the attacker in the process. The following week, Dr. Kovac was present during the autopsy of his attacker. The Dr. performing the autopsy mentions that the dead attacker had suffered from "Valley Fever" when he was younger. She also mentions that in order to have had "Valley Fever" he must have grown up in the San Joaquin Valley in California. Dr. Kovac expresses regret at having killed a "farm boy" and then the camera pans to the body on the table. I am sure that I saw the actor on the table smirk at this point. The actor that played the attacker is named Derek Mears. I know for a fact that he actually was from the San Joaquin Valley (Bakersfield) because he was one of my best friends while growing up there. Vote: 10 (Awesome!!!)
Valley Fever, Coccidioidomycosis, And The Northridge Earthquake. Clearly, valley fever presents a concern, if not a threat, whenever soil dust qualitiesof various fugitive dust control measures in the san joaquin valley. http://www.albrightseed.com/realityregs.htm
Extractions: Watch the Dust Fly The headline read "Oxnard man succumbs to valley fever." The article in the Ventura County Star linked the disease ( coccidioidomycosis ) to a dust cloud that resulted from the January 1994, 6.7 magnitude Northridge earthquake. Spores of a fungus occurring naturally in local soil were carried in a dust cloud over Simi Valley where it caused a miniature epidemic, according to Ventura County Public Health Officer, Dr. Gary Feldman. Valley fever accounted for four deaths out of 52 reported cases in 1993 and at least five deaths since the 1994 earthquake. And while Feldman does not consider it a public health threat, he states that there might be more people who have the disease who don't know it because of its flu-like symptoms. Clearly, valley fever presents a concern, if not a threat, whenever soil dust enters the human environment, as it invariably does with construction projects, unpaved roads and highway shoulders, vacant lots and fields and agricultural operations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has addressed this problem by establishing dust air pollution standards based on particles with "aerodynamic diameters less than 10 micrometers" expressed as "PM
Untitled the disease caused by this pathogenic fungus, is also known as valley fever becausethe organism is prevalent in the san joaquin valley of Central California. http://www.tigr.org/tdb/tgi/cigi/cimmitis_doc.html
Extractions: COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS Coccidioides immitis is a primary fungal pathogen which resides in soil of the desert Southwest. Like most medically-important fungi that cause systemic disease, C. immitis demonstrates different morphologies in its saprobic and parasitic phases, but is distinguished from other fungal pathogens by the unique morphogenetic features of its growth in host tissue (Fig. 1) Coccidioidomycosis, the disease caused by this pathogenic fungus, is also known as Valley Fever because the organism is prevalent in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California. C. immitis infections are contracted almost exclusively by the respiratory route. The clinical spectrum of disease is broad, ranging from an asymptomatic infection to a rapidly fatal mycosis. The most common clinical presentation is self-limited pneumonia, but in some cases the fungus can cause chronic cavitary pulmonary disease or disseminate beyond the lungs to the skin, bones, meninges and other body organs. Coccidioidomycosis can also present as erythema nodosum or as a reactive arthritic condition which is commonly referred to as desert rheumatism. It has been estimated, primarily on the basis of skin tests, that there are between 25,000 and 100,000 new cases of human C. immitis
Medic-Planet Valley Fever of such diseases is known as valley fever because the disease was encountered byearly settlers in the san joaquin valley of California. valley fever also has http://www.medic-planet.com/MP_article/internal_reference/Valley_fever
San Joaquin Valley Rose Society --Members Gardens But that changed quickly as Blanche was President of the san joaquin valley RoseSociety Hybrid Tea was the rose that gave Blanche rose show fever. The bush http://www.rainforest2548.org/sjvblanc.html
Extractions: In 1945 Blanche and her family moved to a home in Fresno. She probably didn't realize that might have been the beginning of her love for roses. There were a few roses at that home, but it wasn't until she moved with her family to her present location in 1953, that her love for roses really started to blossom. She remembers a few of the roses that were on the Ranch ( Eclipse, Hadley, Dainty Bess and Shot Silk Mermaid was growing in an area referred to as the lane. Blanche had become a Charter Member of the San Joaquin Valley Rose Society in January, 1950. But raising two children and helping with six grandchildren in seven years put growing roses last on the priority list. Blanche become a member of the American Rose Society in 1958 and that's when she really started adding roses to the Ranch!! Some of the first roses added were: Sutter's Gold, Mission Bells
Valley Fever Vaccine Project Of The Americas Where is valley fever Found? The known endemic areas include portions of the Sacramentovalley, all of the san joaquin valley, desert regions and southern http://www.valleyfever.com/faq.htm
Extractions: What is Valley Fever? The technical name for Valley Fever is Coccidioidomycosis , or " Cocci " for short. It is a lung infection that is a sickness of degree. About sixty percent of the people exposed do not get sick at all. For some, it may feel like a cold or the flu. For those sick enough to go see the doctor, it can be serious, with pneumonia-like symptoms, requiring medication and bed rest. In individuals who develop the disseminated form (one or more out of two hundred people infected) the disease can be devastating, even fatal. These are the cases in which the disease spreads beyond the lungs through the blood stream - typically to the skin, bones or membranes surrounding the brain, causing meningitis. What is the Cause? Valley Fever is caused by Coccidioides immitis , a fungus somewhat like yeast or mildew which lives in the soil. The spores become airborne when the uncultivated soil is disturbed and are inhaled into the lungs where the infection starts. The disease is not contagious from person to person and it appears that after one exposure the body will develop immunity. Where is Valley Fever Found?
Bakersfield.com - Fighting The Fever 1910 Immigrants to the san joaquin valley develop flu-like illnessknown as valley fever, or san joaquin fever. 1932 http://ww2.bakersfield.com/2002/valleyfever/stories2/timeline.html
Extractions: Photo gallery Valley fever hit epidemic proportions last year and experts are wondering if 2002 will be a repeat. If the disease infects anywhere near the same number of Kern County residents as it did in the early 1990s, the cost could be staggering. During the epidemic years of 1991-93, valley fever costs mounted to more than $56 million. A similar outbreak now could mean even greater costs. Researchers are making progress toward a vaccine, but the going has been slow. The Californian examines the impact of the disease and the efforts of those ìFighting the Fever.î
Bakersfield.com - Fighting The Fever geology instructor at Bakersfield College and East High School, said the slow, creepingmovements of area faults are taking a toll on the san joaquin valley. http://ww2.bakersfield.com/2002/quakes/stories/faults.asp
Extractions: Photo gallery Fifty years ago this Sunday, Kern County was shaken to its roots by the third largest earthquake in recorded California history. The town of Tehachapi was heavily damaged, and 12 people were killed. A month later, an aftershock heavily damaged Bakersfield, killing two. Today, some Kern County residents vividly remember the earthquake, but several more would find themselves unprepared in the event of another big quake. By MELISSA DABRUSHMAN, Californian staff writer Photo courtesy of Virginia Parks Photo shows damage from the 1952 earthquake near Copus Road in Maricopa Flats, Bakersfield. The myriad earthquake faults surrounding Kern County resemble a broken pane of glass, cracks extending in every direction. The county has 15 or 20 active faults with either a known history of quakes or that show evidence of geologically recent (within the last few thousand years) movement.
