CDC Article on Fungal Infections After Natural Disasters
Dear loyal readers, Things have been crazy busy here at Spore Consulting, LLC - we moved the main portion of our office (and lives, since we're a home-based business) from Prescott to Tempe, Arizona over the last two weeks. More on that later. We're never too busy to catch up on our reading, though. The CDC just released their latest issue of the online journal Emerging Infectious Diseases . In the March 2014 issue, there's an article on " Invasive Fungal Infections After Natural Disasters " that is eligible for continuing education credit. This article was interesting to me for two reasons: 1) it described some of the risks associated with Coccidioides species fungi during disaster situations, and 2) it discussed indoor mold exposures after disasters. My interest in Coccidioides species fungi stems from my undergraduate studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. The University of Arizona is home to the Valley Fever Center for Excellence , and I le...