{"id":193482,"date":"2024-07-24T18:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T23:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/mom-raises-critical-warning-to-parents-after-son-contracts-serious-disease-spreading-across-state-it-ravaged-his-body"},"modified":"2024-07-24T18:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T23:23:35","slug":"mom-raises-critical-warning-to-parents-after-son-contracts-serious-disease-spreading-across-state-it-ravaged-his-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/mom-raises-critical-warning-to-parents-after-son-contracts-serious-disease-spreading-across-state-it-ravaged-his-body","title":{"rendered":"Mom raises critical warning to parents after son contracts serious disease spreading across state: \u2018It ravaged his body\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xP0ImQtjh5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Arizona, cases of valley fever \u2014 a disease spread by a fungus that lives in the dirt \u2014 have more than doubled in the past year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.12news.com\/article\/news\/health\/a-gilbert-mom-is-raising-awareness-about-valley-fever-after-her-son-was-hospitalized\/75-174ef62b-a2a1-4b4b-b230-1b73828a80f5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">12News reported<\/a>. The spike in cases may be related to conditions brought about by the ongoing overheating of our planet, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Valley fever is a lung infection that causes symptoms similar to those that come with pneumonia. These symptoms include fatigue, cough, fever, headache, shortness of breath, night sweats, muscle aches, and rash, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/valley-fever\/signs-symptoms\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though more than 60% of people who are infected with valley fever do not get sick from it, in some cases the infection is severe enough that patients require hospitalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Arizona, cases of valley fever \u2014 a disease spread by a fungus that lives in the dirt \u2014 have more than doubled in the past year, 12News reported. The spike in cases may be related to conditions brought about by the ongoing overheating of our planet, officials said. Valley fever is a lung infection [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}