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‘Once It Hits Your Kidneys, Your Kidneys Are Scarred.’
Rebecca Plevin, Vida en el Valle|Sep 26, 2012
FRESNO, Calif. -- After two harrowing experiences with valley fever, 29-year-old Irma Arrollo thought she had finally beat the fungal disease. In 2007, when she was 23, the disease invaded her lungs and kidneys. She couldn’t breathe and was throwing up constantly. She spent about three weeks in the hospital, and missed one month of work at United Way of Tulare County. Two years later, in 2009, the disease reappeared as a red rash across her legs. The rash became “big, gushing, purple things” tha...