{"id":132922,"date":"2024-08-03T19:36:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T19:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/california-dept-of-public-health-investigating-disease-outbreak-among-music-festival-attendees\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T19:36:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T19:36:01","slug":"california-dept-of-public-health-investigating-disease-outbreak-among-music-festival-attendees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/california-dept-of-public-health-investigating-disease-outbreak-among-music-festival-attendees\/","title":{"rendered":"California Dept. Of Public Health Investigating Disease Outbreak Among Music Festival Attendees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tMore than 20,000 attendees on the California Lightning in a Bottle<\/a> music competition might have been uncovered to a harmful fungal sickness. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe California Department of Public Health (CDPH<\/a>) is investigating 5 instances of Valley fever<\/a> that occurred amongst individuals who traveled via Kern County to attend the May 22-27 at Buena Vista Lake, close to town of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo far, three folks have been hospitalized, however extra instances linked to attendance on the competition are attainable, authorities stated to the Fox Weather channel<\/a>,<\/a> <\/a>which first reported the story.<\/p>\n

\n\tValley fever signs embody cough, fever, fatigue, issue respiration, and chest ache. There are about 200 deaths a 12 months as a result of illness. The illness just isn’t contagious and might\u2019t unfold from human to human.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThose are mostly people with severe immunocompromising illnesses underlying this infection,\u201d stated Dr. Brad Perkins, chief medical officer at\u00a0Karius<\/u><\/a>, an organization that gives superior diagnostics for infectious ailments. \u201cIt can be a devastating infection in those people. That\u2019s pretty rare, fortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLightning in a Bottle attendees\u200b share particulars about any sickness on the CDPH Valley fever survey web site. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe infectious illness is attributable to the Coccidioides fungus that grows within the soil and filth in some areas \u200bof California.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhile most people exposed to this fungus do not develop Valley fever, the fungus can infect the lungs and cause respiratory symptoms, including cough, difficulty breathing, fever, and tiredness or fatigue,\u201d the CDPH experiences. <\/p>\n

\n\tPast Valley fever outbreaks have been linked to inhaling mud and filth at out of doors occasions in sure components of California the place Valley fever is widespread.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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[ad_1] More than 20,000 attendees on the California Lightning in a Bottle music competition might have been uncovered to a harmful fungal sickness. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is investigating 5 instances of Valley fever that occurred amongst individuals who traveled via Kern County to attend the May 22-27 at Buena Vista Lake, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2473,4789,1555,5865,5866,508,1793,4173,280,5867,2051],"class_list":{"0":"post-132922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-among","9":"tag-attendees","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-dept","12":"tag-disease","13":"tag-festival","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-investigating","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-outbreak","18":"tag-public"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}