Editing Santa Ana winds (section)

== Health effects ==
The winds carry ''[[Coccidioides immitis]]'' and ''[[Coccidioides posadasii]]'' spores into nonendemic areas,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lapublichealth.org/acd/diseases/Cocci.pdf |title=COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS |publisher=Department of Public Health |access-date=2014-01-19 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203011407/http://www.lapublichealth.org/acd/diseases/Cocci.pdf |archive-date=2014-02-03 }}</ref><ref name="Sherris2">{{cite book | author = Lawrence L. Schmelzer | author2 = Irving R. Tabershaw | title = Exposure Factors In Occupational Coccidioidomycosis | page = 110 | publisher = McGraw Hill | year = 1968 }}</ref> a pathogenic fungus that causes [[Coccidioidomycosis]] ("Valley Fever"). Symptomatic infection (40 percent of cases) usually presents as an influenza-like illness with fever, cough, headaches, rash, and myalgia (muscle pain).<ref name="Sherris">{{cite book |editor-last= Ryan |editor-first=K.J. |editor2-last=Ray |editor2-first=C.G. | title = Sherris Medical Microbiology | edition = 4th | pages = 680–83 | publisher = McGraw Hill | year = 2004 | isbn = 0-8385-8529-9 }}</ref> Serious complications include severe pneumonia, lung nodules, and disseminated disease, where the fungus spreads throughout the body. The disseminated form of [[Coccidioidomycosis]] can devastate the body, causing skin ulcers, abscesses, bone lesions, severe joint pain, heart inflammation, urinary tract problems, meningitis, and often death.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec14/ch180/ch180f.html |title=Coccidioidomycosis |publisher=Merck |access-date=2014-01-19 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114045032/http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec14/ch180/ch180f.html |archive-date=2010-11-14 }}</ref>