Tag: california prisons
By Jeralyn, Section Inmates and Prisons
Posted on Sat Dec 29, 2007 at 05:41:33 PM EST
Tags: california prisons (all tags)
Posted on Sat Dec 29, 2007 at 05:41:33 PM EST
Tags: california prisons (all tags)
This sounds like a prelude to a scene out of "I am Legend" where Will Smith is the last man alive after a virus breaks out. Only it's real, and it's happening in California prisons.
In the past three years, more than 900 inmates at the prison have contracted [Valley] fever, a fungal infection that has been both widespread and lethal. At least a dozen inmates here in Central California have died from the disease, which is on the rise in other Western states, including Arizona, where the health department declared an epidemic after more than 5,500 cases were reported in 2006, including 33 deaths.
It's not just inmates who are contracting Valley Fever which appears to be spread through soil in areas of the Southwest.
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