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Article: PROJECT STIRS FEARS OF VALLEY FEVER; RESIDENTS SAY CONSTRUCTION MAY SPREAD HARMFUL SPORES.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- January 4, 1998
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Byline: Gloria Gonzales Daily News Staff Writer
Linda Myszkowski contracted San Joaquin Valley fever in October of 1995. Pregnant at the time, the disease threatened her unborn child and eventually left her without immunity to the illness.
``They were building the Warmington homes just up the hill from us, more than 50 new homes, and there was frequently dust in the air from the construction,'' Myszkowski recalled. ``We had just moved to Moorpark in September and on Oct. 3, I became violently sick. For the first month they told me I had pneumonia. Then they drained fluid from my lungs and tested it and told me I had valley fever.''
Myszkowski ...