San Joaquin Valley fever

noun

Pathology.

1. coccidioidomycosis.

Word History and Origins

Origin of San Joaquin Valley fever¹

After the area in which it was first reported

Example Sentences

Shruti Javali, a family physician at a clinic in Hanford, Calif., regularly treats patients with advanced cases of San Joaquin Valley fever, a fungal lung infection found mainly in that part of California and Arizona.

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In the United States, it has mostly plagued humans and animals in Arizona and California’s San Joaquin Valley, where the illness was first described as “San Joaquin Valley fever” more than a century ago.

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Indeed, the name valley fever is a shorter and more general term for an earlier name, San Joaquin Valley fever, because it was so common in that part of California.

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It soon became known as the San Joaquin Valley Fever, such was its prevalence there but by the 1940s, its existence in Arizona was well documented.

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