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| California may have to move 3,000 inmates at risk for Valley fever |
| By foxnews.com |
| Published: 05/02/2013 |
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As many as 3,000 prison inmates in central California deemed to be at risk from a potentially lethal lung disease may need to be moved to other regions under an order from a court-appointed federal overseer. The directive, issued on Monday, marks the latest effort to stem cases of valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis, at two prisons where the disease was found to have contributed to the deaths of nearly three dozen inmates from 2006 to 2011. But it could complicate court-ordered efforts to reduce overcrowding across California's prison system, the nation's largest. The pneumonia-like illness, contracted by inhaling fungal spores that grow in the dry soils of the American Southwest, is not contagious. But the spores become airborne when soil is disturbed by wind, construction, farming and other activities. Read More. |
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