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| California Spends $5M To Screen Inmates For Valley Fever |
| By sacramento.cbslocal.com |
| Published: 01/12/2015 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California is spending more than $5 million to screen tens of thousands of prison inmates for a potentially deadly illness to see which ones can safely be housed at two prisons in the Central Valley. Inmates who already have been exposed to the soil-borne fungus that causes valley fever are considered largely immune to repeat infections, so they can be transferred to the prisons near Fresno. The testing, which officials hope to complete in one day Monday, follows the recommendations of federal experts who said last year that the tests could reduce the number of infections by 60 percent, compared with the current policy of automatically excluding black and Filipino inmates and others who statistically are more susceptible to the fungus. Read More. |
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