A recent rise in valley fever cases among people has researchers concerned that our four-legged companions may also be at risk. Each year, about 1,000 cases of valley fever are reported in dogs across ...

State health officials are warning about a sharp rise in a potentially debilitating disease that's affecting both humans and ...

Valley Fever is an illness unique to the desert southwest and dogs are particularly vulnerable, but hope is on the horizon as researchers move closer to approval for a new preventative canine vaccine.

An experimental vaccine designed to protect dogs against a certain fungus that causes a disease called Valley fever has proved effective after decades of research. Valley fever mostly affects dogs’ ...

Wade was a vibrant and spunky French Bulldog who, like so many pets, only wanted love, safety, and a forever home. But fate had other plans. His early life started out normally, but soon took a ...

Valley fever, an infection caused by a type of fungus that lives nestled in dust and soil, has been reported more and more in U.S. residents over the past several years—but it's not just humans that ...

Dogs are vulnerable to Valley fever because they often dig in the dirt where the fungus lives, she said. And though the illness is not transmitted from person to person or in this case from animal to ...

A UC Davis study finds that dogs could be indicators for Valley fever spread in humans. (Credit: Dr. William Zachary Mills DVM, MPH, MBA) Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis, is caused by a fungus ...