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On 19 Nov 2023, Red State Pedophiles for DeSantis <
elonx@protonmail.com>
posted some news:ujdenl$3snkp$
3@dont-email.me:
Not one shred of scientific evidence was presented by the Washington
Post or the medicos. VALLEY FEVER, look it up.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - At some point, Erik McIntyre inhaled the fungal
spores. He couldn't see them, or feel them, and it was weeks before he
began to lose energy, to drop weight, to cough up blood at a karaoke bar
in Arizona.
Now that he's paralyzed from Valley fever, in a nursing home at age 53,
the former U.S. Navy electrician's day begins at 5 a.m. with a rectal
tube procedure to release gas trapped in his stomach. The antifungal
injections that left him retching and shaking are less frequent now, and
the lesions where the fungus grew on his face and arms have faded to
scars. But he knows he will never be cured, or probably walk again.
"I try not to dwell on what could have been," he said.
McIntyre can imagine the moment he encountered those microscopic spores.
He remembers driving across dusty Phoenix suburbs with his windows down.
But he can't be sure.
These days, the fungus could be anywhere.
Valley fever has long haunted the American Southwest: Soldiers on dusty military bases, prisoners in wind-swept jails, construction workers
pushing new suburbs farther into deserts have all encountered
coccidioides, the flesh-eating fungus that causes Valley fever. But the
threat is growing. Cases have roughly quadrupled over the past two
decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A key reason for Valley fever's spread, researchers say, may be
human-driven climate change - and they warn that a much larger area of
the United States will become vulnerable to the disease in the decades
to come. The fungus thrives in dry soils, rides on plumes of dust and
booms after periods of extreme drought - the exact cycles that
scientists say have grown more intense and widespread across the
American West due to the warming climate.
While science is not yet able to show a definitive link between the
rising case counts and higher temperatures, the connection seems clear
to many of the front-line health workers grappling with the disease.
"I cannot think of any other infection that is so closely entwined with
climate change," said Rasha Kuran, an infectious-disease specialist at
the University of California at Los Angeles who is one of McIntyre's
doctors.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/an-invisible-killer-18491299.php
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