Medical expert says Valley fever outbreak at 2 California prisons a ?public health emergency?

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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...714b18-b0d2-11e2-9fb1-62de9581c946_story.html

Medical expert says Valley fever outbreak at 2 California prisons a ?public health emergency?
By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, April 29, 9:43 AM

SAN FRANCISCO ? Valley fever is spreading so quickly through two Central California prisons that a medical expert is recommending the state act quickly to stem the outbreak or shut the institutions down.

In a sworn declaration to a federal judge in San Francisco, Dr. John Galgiani said the situation at the Pleasant Valley and Avenal prisons is a ?public health emergency...?

 

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Re: Medical expert says Valley fever outbreak at 2 California prisons a ?public health emergency?

Source: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...alifornia-prisons-expert-recommends-shutdown/

Vulnerable Inmates Ordered Out Of 2 California Prisons Over Disease Outbreak
April 29, 2013 3:15 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) ?The federal receiver who controls medical care in California?s prisons is ordering thousands of high-risk inmates out of two Central Valley prisons in response to hundreds of hospitalizations and dozens of deaths due to valley fever.

Medical receiver J. Clark Kelso on Monday ordered the state corrections department to exclude black, Filipino and other medically risky inmates from the two prisons because they are more susceptible to the airborne fungal infection, which originates in the region?s soil...

 

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Re: Medical expert says Valley fever outbreak at 2 California prisons a ?public health emergency?

http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x568090130/Experts-hail-step-to-move-at-risk-inmates-out-of-valley-fever-hot-spots

Tuesday, Apr 30 2013 06:37 PM
Experts hail step to move at-risk inmates out of valley fever hot spots
BY RACHEL COOK AND REBECCA PLEVIN Reporting on Health Collaborative

The day after a federal receiver ordered two state prisons to exclude inmates especially vulnerable to valley fever, experts hailed the directive as a step toward addressing an alarming public health problem.

Meanwhile, the state grappled with how to digest the directive...

 

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Source: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/06/5399077/brown-mystified-at-continuing.html

Calif. objects to moving inmates because of fungus
By JUDY LIN and DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
Published: Monday, May. 6, 2013 - 1:43 pm
Last Modified: Monday, May. 6, 2013 - 7:21 pm

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- It is premature to move more than 3,000 inmates out of two state prisons until more is known about an airborne fungus that is being blamed for nearly three-dozen inmate deaths and hundreds of hospitalizations, Gov. Jerry Brown's administration said in a court filing Monday night...

 

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Re: Medical expert says Valley fever outbreak at 2 California prisons a ?public health emergency?

Source: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/17/5502718/judge-considers-effect-of-fungus.html

Judge considers effect of fungus on Calif. inmates
By MIHIR ZAVERI and DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
Published: Monday, Jun. 17, 2013 - 7:08 am
Last Modified: Monday, Jun. 17, 2013 - 5:57 pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- A lawyer representing inmates at two California state prisons told a federal judge Monday that an airborne fungus occurring in the San Joaquin Valley presents the deadly threat of valley fever and that thousands should be transferred immediately...

 

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Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/p...valley-fever-prisons-20130624,0,2870415.story

Inmates ordered removed from prisons with valley fever outbreaks
June 24, 2013, 6:50 p.m.

California has lost another federal court decision: a judge on Monday ordered the state to move inmates at risk of contracting valley fever out of two prisons afflicted with the deadly fungus.

The order late Monday by U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson gives the state seven days to begin the transfers and 90 days to complete them. Several thousand inmates, including African Americans, Filipinos and those with diabetes and HIV, are covered by the order affecting Pleasant Valley and Avenal state prisons...

 

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Re: Medical expert says Valley fever outbreak at 2 California prisons a ?public health emergency?

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/p...-risk-of-valley-fever-20130702,0,216644.story

State agrees to move 2,600 inmates at risk of valley fever
By Paige St. John
July 2, 2013, 3:54 p.m.

California corrections officials say they will try to "fully comply" with a federal court order to move up to 2,600 inmates at risk of contracting valley fever out of harms way...