re fungus epidemic in ca in article pitt uucp geb cs pitt edu gordon banks writes in article steward cup portal com john joseph deltuvia writes there was a story a few weeks ago on a network news show about some sort of fungus which supposedly attacks the bone structure and is somewhat widespread in california anybody hear anything about this one the only fungus i know of from california is coccidiomycosis i hadn t heard that it attacked bone it attacks lung and if you are especially unlucky the central nervous system nothing new about it it s been around for years they call it valley fever since it is found in the inland valleys not on the coast there is a mini epidemic of coccidiodes that is occurring in i believe the owen s valley bishop area east of the sierras i don t believe there has been any great insight into the increased incidence in that area there is a low level of endemic infection in that region many people with evidence of past exposure to the organism did not have serious disease brian
