Valley fever could be spreading across the U.S. Here are the symptoms and what you need to know

Microscopic view of Coccidioidomycosis fungus (Credit: Kateryna Kon—Science Photo Library/Getty Images)

Valley fever, a fungal infection most notably found in the Southwestern United States, is now likely to spread east, throughout the Great Plains and even north to the Canadian border because of climate change, according to a study in GeoHealth. 

“As the temperatures warm up, and the western half of the U.S. stays quite dry, our desert-like soils will kind of expand and these drier conditions could allow coccidioides to live in new places,” Morgan Gorris, who led the GeoHealth study while at the University of California, Irvine, told Today.com.