[pct-l] Valley Fever

[Robert Henry]

One more thing for you past and future thru hikers to worry about: San
Joaquin Valley Fever.  When the wind comes as screaming northerly through
the Tehachipi Mountains, blowing you off your feet, it is carrying dust
from the San Joaquin Valley.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/20/140120fa_fact_goodyear

(BTW: I test positive for the disease, but that was well before I hiked the
PCT.  I was exposed growing up in the CA desert.)