Canine Vaccine for Valley Fever

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Although most of the article is about people, there is one paragraph that is important for dogs.

*Is there a cure or vaccine for valley fever?

*Not yet. According to the CDC, scientists have been working on a vaccine to prevent valley fever since the 1960s. *However, researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson have created a two-dose vaccine that’s been proved effective in dogs.

“I’m really quite hopeful,” Dr. John Galgiani, director of the Valley Fever Center for Excellence at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, told Today . “In my view, right now, we do have a candidate that deserves to be evaluated and I think will probably be effective, and we’ll be using it.”

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

Maybe we should be getting on them to make it widely available?

(I had VF as a child and have lost dogs to it. The stuff is no fun. If there’s a canine vaccine, give it to my dogs!)

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This is a subject near and dear to my heart. I had a dog I recently lost who battled VF for 13+ years. He was enrolled in the studies at the U of A until they said he aged out. And I lost another dog to it in 2020.

University of Arizona’s Valley Fever Center for Excellence is hoping to have the vaccine available to vets later this year.

uarizona_valleyfever_vaccine_fact_sheet_2-17-2023.pdf

Fun fact if you are an NFL fan, when Rob Gronkowski was in Tucson for the U of A’s Spring football game, he donated $1 million to the research.

The biggest problem has been lack of funding, But finally things are moving forward.

https://www.kgun9.com/sports/local-sports/nfl-great-and-former-arizona-wildcat-rob-gronkowski-trying-to-block-valley-fever#:~:text=The%20future%20Hall%20of%20Famer,a%20vaccine%20for%20Valley%20Fever.