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Just One Breath
6:24 pm
Sun October 7, 2012

Town hall event focuses on valley fever concerns

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State Senator Michael Rubio led a town hall meeting on Friday in Bakersfield to address concerns about valley fever
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7-year-old Emily Gorospe reads from a handwritten note describing how the disease has changed her life.
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7-year-old Emily Gorospe points at a chart tracking the increase in reported cases of valley fever in Kern County from 1930 to 2011.
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7-year-old Emily Gorospe and her mother Valerie Gorospe listen to panelists discuss the valley fever epidemic currently facing Kern County.
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Dr. Tom Larwood talks about the history of valley fever research at a town hall meeting held in Bakersfield on Friday.
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Around 40 people attended a town hall meeting about valley fever in Bakersfield on Friday October 5, 2012.
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By REBECCA PLEVIN AND RACHEL COOK - Reporting on Health Collaborative

San Joaquin Valley residents, doctors and experts demanding improvements in the way valley fever is studied, diagnosed and treated shared their concerns during a town hall meeting hosted by state Senator Michael Rubio, D-Shafter, in Bakersfield on Friday.

Experts stressed the need for earlier diagnosis of the disease. That requires better education about the disease for providers and the public, they said.

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Just One Breath
3:17 pm
Sun October 7, 2012

Valley fever vaccine effort lacks federal funding

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By YESENIA AMARO AND TRACY WOOD - Reporting on Health Collaborative

The federal government is the single biggest source for the primary research that leads to new vaccines. 

But, like the pharmaceutical industry, it currently is not supporting a valley fever vaccine. Other diseases that affect far fewer people receive much more federal support. 

Tularemia only affects about 200 people in the country annually, less than 1 percent of the estimated 150,000 people hit by valley fever. Like valley fever, the disease is primarily concentrated in only a portion of the country, mostly in the south-central and western part of the country.

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