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UA valley fever research could save sick dogs

All StoriesJules Zappone10/11/20170

Brinkley is only 1 1/2 years old. She takes six medications a day. One combats the infection in her bones. Three suppress her pain. One supplements her joints, and the last is an antibiotic that fights her additional health threats. Brinkley suffers from a severe case of valley fever, a disease that is crippling dogs…

Hopes for drug that might cure Valley Fever

All StoriesCasey Woollard10/23/20141

Every year, roughly 90,000 Arizonans are infected with a disease that could kill them. But that could change soon. A new drug is being developed to potentially cure Valley Fever since it kills one out of 10 people infected. The Southwest region – Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas – is home to the Valley Fever…