Centers for Disease Control Recommends Testing Prisoners for Valley Fever

July, 2014

The Centers for Disease Control has conducted a study and issued a Report on reducing Valley Fever infections among California prisoners. The report recommends that California prison staff test prisoners for immunity to Valley Fever and exclude non-immune and high-risk prisoners from placement at the two prisons with the highest risk of infection (Avenal State Prison and Pleasant Valley State Prison).

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