Cases of valley fever, a fungal disease caused by spores found within soil in parts of the U.S., has been rising in recent decades, prompting warnings from local health authorities.

Fungi are the most common causal agent of plant disease. Of the more than 2 million species of fungi worldwide, 8,000 are known to be detrimental to plants. These microscopic organisms cause symptoms ...

SALINAS, CA − A lethal fungus has quietly spread in the soil across the West. Now, it’s threatening areas well beyond the dusty deserts and valleys where it likely originated. Valley fever, a disease ...

This year, my husband and I planted tomato transplants early (Feb. 11) in our three raised garden beds at our home. By mid-April we began picking tomatoes and feel that we had a tremendous harvest. We ...

On a trip to Costa Rica, 12 people from the same family were infected. Normally, a vacation to a tropical locale involves sunburns, maybe some bug bites, and sand stuck in your hair. For one family ...

Preemptive control of heavy-hitting diseases like white mold, frogeye leaf spot, Cercospora leaf blight and others is now ...

A family vacation to Costa Rica turned sour after 12 of 13 relatives developed symptoms of a fungal lung infection following an excursion through bat-filled caves. In season two of The Last of Us, the ...

Back at the turn of the 21st century, Valley fever was an obscure fungal disease in the United States, with fewer than 3,000 reported cases per year, mostly in California and Arizona. Two decades ...

More snakes in California are turning up sick or dead than previously thought, and an infectious disease is to blame. “Early results of our study are in, and they paint a different picture than what ...