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Could dogs help predict spread of Valley fever in people?

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Valley fever is a lung infection caused by breathing in spores from Coccidioides , a fungus that lives in the soil and dust in certain regions of the U.S. Valley fever does not spread between people or between people and animals.

University of California researchers evaluated almost 835,000 blood antibody tests taken from dogs nationwide between 2012 and 2022 .

They believe dog data could be used as a warning sign for where humans should look out for the disease.