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Gabriel Ibarra-Mejia, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of public health sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso, was one of the lead authors of a study that identified a significant rise in Valley fever cases in El Paso, Texas, over the past decade and found strong connections between the disease and extreme weather, wind and airborne dust. The research team included Thomas Gill, Ph.D. (not pictured), a professor in the UTEP Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences; and Narges Khanjani, M.D., Ph.D. (not pictured), a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics in the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at Texas Tech Health El Paso, with additional contributions from researchers at New Mexico State University, the University of California, Merced, and other institutions.
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