April Baker is a morning anchor and reporter for “Good Day Utah” on FOX 13 News.April’s journalism career has taken her to four different states before she landed here in The Beehive State.
SALT LAKE CITY — A lesser known fungal disease infecting Utahns is getting renewed attention from a team of scientists at the University of Utah.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Valley Fever is an infection that’s caused by a fungus that lives in the soil. Both people and animals can contract Valley Fever only if they inhale the microscopic fungal spores from the air. It can’t be passed human-to-human, animal-to-human, or vice versa.
Osborn says most cases have been reported in the Southwestern part of the state but suspects the fungus lives in other parts, too. “There are a lot of open questions about Valley Fever. It is an understudied pathogen,” Walter explains. “The CDC’s risk map of where they think Valley Fever exists now is drawn from skin testing studies that were done in the 1940s and 1950s.”
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