as i sit here in communist chapel hill nc i cant help but feel trodden down by corruption. Why? Well, it seems as though bybeing a tea party advocate i get a fair amount of greif for my politik. Our fruited plain of the usa is under full frontal attack. The corrupt Biden regime has locked me and thousands of other repubs behind lock and key... As if that werent enough theyre currently giving all kinds of work to illegal immigrants. Something about this reeks. And i dont just mean the FCC cover up of the beginnings ofWW3. What i mean is this
Friday, February 24, 2023
Bidencare is Obamacare Corruption on Steroids
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Theglobalists detainedme
on the verge of escape the globalist pigs had me detained. Icurrently type this on anet i hacked into under lock n key. Fight the power by going to infowars.com... the heads of the fema camp im in are predominantly asian. Fight back today....before it is too late.
G
Friday, February 17, 2023
Reserching Cults to Stop Sex Slavery: CLICK HERE 2 READ
Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults Paper Number 15-0030, November 9, 2015 Robin Boyle-Laisure E-mail Comments to: boyler@stjohns.edu St. John’s University School of Law Queens, NY 11439 This paper can be downloaded without charge from The Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2690453. Electronic copy available at:
Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults I. Cults−An Overview ....................................................... 209 A. The Case of Elissa Wall Against FLDS ................. 210 B. Four Processes of Indoctrination ............................ 213 1. Thought Control CULTIC STUD.J. 1−14 (2000); Carmen Almendros et al., Former Members’ Perceptions of Cult Involvement 6 CULTIC STUD. REV. 1−20 (2007); Stephen A. Kent, House of Judah, the Northeast Kingdom Community, and the Jonestown Problem: Downplaying Child Physical Abuses and Ignoring Serious Evidence 1 INT’L J. CULTIC STUD. 27−48 (2010); Carmen Almendros et al., Reasons for Leaving: Psychological Abuse and Distress Reported by Former Members of Cultic Groups 8 CULTIC STUD. REV. 111−38 (2009). 8 Landa, supra note 5, at 591. 9 See generally id.
Russia, China Invade USA: "We Need to Get the F*CK Out of Defense Mode a Nuke Beijing, TADAY!"
I have alot of tuff to t talk about, but one thing I will say is, I'm here at my folk's the O'Connell House, and I moved out of here the first time when I was about 16 or so. Now, I'm fleeing from these goddamned hippies and their hoarde of satanic demonic unrepentant sinners. I Told My Fam, Look - if You aren't going to allow me Independence (Use the Car, My Entire Welfare Check etc.), I'd like a ride back to my home in Durham to go live there (Couch Surf et.c). Even this they coldly refused...
but, due to a miracle,
I'm leaving for Durham tomorrow with nothing but the salty feeling that communist towns in american society, like Pittsboro, are essentially Pro-Russian Communism & Pro-Buddhist China. Why? I doubt it's baked in. Somehow these faggots just move here and take over like the Chinese Ivy that grew here until we found away to batten it back.
So with that,
I'll be updated this blog away from my Parent's House from Now on.
Why?
B/C they're verifiably part of the Shakori Hills Clan, and I discerned through dialectic that they had gone to secret Communist meetings on the grounds of the "Grassroots" Farm (That I actually - in a fit of rage - spraypainted "BLOOD FOR SOIL" on their money changer's table). Second, b/c my parent's are under the influence of things I don't understand, and it's fucking weird, crazy and not at all normal. I think they are trying to drag me to hell with them, and it won't work.
So tomorrow,
I'm leaving, and never looking back.
Wish me luck!!!
Brendan
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Bryan Kohberger? DDU DECLARES THE TRUTH: "He's a Goddamned Russian Espionage Agent, And IT IS OBVIOUS" -details below
So we all know the dramatic apparently "slasher film-esque" hit/homicide on those poor innocent children in Idaho. I called my FBI agent friend, and she leaked that he was a Russian Espionage Agent, somehow here by whatever means I can't disclose atm until all the facts are in, the whole time
and the Fed/Homeland Security Knew It!
Let's stitch a few basic memes here, together so you can come to the same realization.
A few Facts:
A COMMUNIST PLOT AGAINST THE FREE WORLD POLICE
BRENDAN O'Connell: Thanks sir. I have some information. I shall be glad to tell the committee what I have learned and hope it will dull the point of the communist sickle.
I was born in Richmond VA and educated in Pittsboro NC @ Pittsboro Elementary, Horton Middle School, and Northwood High School.
The imperative is that the New World Police be kept currently informed of the subversive activities of the Communist Conspiracy and how this effects the rights of citizens of the Free World, with the Communist Conspiracy's activities and how they turn us into the unwitting tools or victims of a specific campaign of subversion.
Many of us know what is back of the mob violence which we have been considering. It is probable, however, that few of the demonstrators realize that they are victims of a war that is being waged in the free world today. It is a life and death struggle between communism, which makes the people the slaves of the state, and free world democracy, in which the state carries out the will of the people.
Our police are among the foremost gaurdians of freedom and thus a major target of the communists. The better the force, the greater it's efficiency, the bigger it's competence in preserving the peace, the more vital it is for the communists to destroy it. I understand the commitee's desire that I outline the tactics of the comminust subversion and describe several case histories illustrating their techniques for attacking police.
The international Communist organization provides a training manual for espionage agents in which their duties are enumerated. This pamphlet was seized in europe. Let me paraphrase the tasks assigned to agents in one of the countries of the free world.
First, make investigation and report on the activities of the police and security services.
Second, investigate and repress those security organizations that support the government.
I would assume this remains till today.
Third, find ways to infiltrate the police and security organizations to steal documents-particularly those recording their knowledge of communism-and to destroy everything of value.
I beleive that the manual is specific in those instructions.
I have an example. Let me describe briefly the history of the Communist war against the police in one of the major countries of the free world.
Until the Communist politicians started to create trouble in recent years there had never been an incident on the record showing political interference with the administration of the police force.
The communist technique has been directed primarily toward the discrediting the police in the eyes of the people.
The communists, of course, try to tell the people that police are in the pay of foreign powers. Efforts were made to penetrate the police and recruit personel in headquarters and provicial offices in security units. Further, a smear campaign attempted to discredit the leaders among the rank and file. The more outstanding and upright the senoir police officers, the more certain they were to become a communist target.
The above example is a rather awesome example of Communist techniques against the police... Fortunately I can report that in this instance they failed. The fine traditions of the free world police have been restored in this nation and we're on a road to true Freedom and Democracy.
As you know, there are two general aspects of Communist activity:
(1) The subversion aspect where efforts are made to penetrate and control every phase of political, economic and cultural life of a country.
(2) the militant aspect which involves agitation, demonstrations, riots, insurrection, and rebellion. Police must have have a capability of dealing with both the subversive and militant aspects of communism. This requires an internal security mechanism which provides an investigative apparatus capable of identifying and developing information on subversive individuals and organizations and capable of neutralizing their activities. It also is necessary that highly trained and highly specialized investigative apparatus be supported by a larger force capable of controlling demonstration, riots, and other civil disorders.
Communism will work openly and legally where it can. But it will work secretly and illegally where it must. Its capability for conspiratorial work largely accounts for the survival of the International Communist conspiracy.
Their international movement has developed a system of defensive measures to protect itself against the police, against intelligence agencies and against a hostile public. Knowledge of party activities is carefully organized. An intraparty detective service and a controlled commision guard against police penetration.
Plans for offensive action are carefully devised and except for minor local adaptations constitute a detailed blueprint for worldwide agitation.
None of us should feel that the task is easy, nor that victory will be quick. The commies are dangerous, feindishly clever, ruthless, and determined enemies. Their potential loot? The biggest possible... Control of the world. They will not give up the goal as long as they last.
DDU - NC, 2013
(DEVISED FROM THE BIRCHERS)
2 + 2 = 4
THIS:
Plus: MOSCOW IDAHO
EQUAL: He's a Goddamned Russian Espionage Agent, And IT IS OBVIOUS
BRENDAN O'CONNELL
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Trumpist Out of Jail Today Says: "Happy Valentine's Day"
I'm a badbwoy at heart, a rudebwoy when I fight, and the don damned boss all the time. Being this cockily uncocky makes me a lot of friends and enemies who I'll never meet. I'd like to wish all of them a happy Trump V Day, all across America. From Sea to Shining Sea, the people of the Fruited Plains in the US of A right now, at this moment are having a romantic night for Valentine's Day.
I was jealous for a while, until I learned that envy, apart from being the Deadliest Sin, is slave morality. Do we want to be slaves to Darwin? Or masters of the universe?
Pick a side Biden's so-called America, b/c envy is the way of death, and those who have it in their heart are gluttons for punishment.
I got out of County Jail today, after a close call. I called the cops on my Father & Mother, the sheriffs came by and had a nice talk, and immediately after they left - MY DAD MASED ME OUT OF NOWHERE!!!
Then they called the cops on ME!!!
I was charged with Simple Assault, and thought for sure - the Globalists use of collectivist pagan spiritual forms & energies (or whatever they call Voodoo, Sorcery, Wizardry etc. nowadays) were going to stop my first date with my sweatheart. I was hopeless in that cell after being arrested due to my 'rents calling the police on me over and over, I felt almost nihilistically hopeless that I would make it to our planned first Date.
Every time I've made a date with this secretive girl of the South, somehow or another my dad (Mini-Micheal Moore Man-Bear-Pig 'Dipshit Dad') would - for whatever reason - find and yea, go out of his way to have me incarcerated in jail or insane asylums. Two times I had a date, and two times I was arrested right before it, due to civilians playing armchair-cop, as my dad is want to do for whatever insane reason.
So as I lay there in the prison bed, I mulled over this V Day, and was sure I would never, ever make it to this date. But b/c of the whole - 3rd time's a charm thing - I have been blessed to have 1 romantic evening in Cinderalla fashion. I may just run oft' at exactly midnight to keep with our courtship archetypes; b/c I just got a purity ring.
So with that,Always Remember,
Never Forget - what happened that day on 9/11.
B/C if our intel/security doesn't stop every single attempt at that type of attack on NYC architecture/structure, it would be inevitable for us to repeat history. But thank god for NASA.
All terror attackers are stopped in their tracks, and little guys like me know that.
So pray for a safe work week,
a safe break this weekend,
and safe courtship eve,
Known as V-Day, 2/14/23
DDU Founder
/Brendan Hooker O'Connell
Monday, February 13, 2023
BREAKING: Uhaul Hits Multiple Pedestrians in Bayridge Brooklyn in Possible Terror Attack
Sunday, February 12, 2023
Eagles v. Cheifs: "Patrick Mahome's is a Hero Who Lives It"
As I sit here, watching a deplorable lack of spirit go on in our backwater shithole of a town, I wonder why I even took the Philidelphia "Fetterman Fags" side, by calling out the Kansas City Queers.
the fact is, they have always called the homesexuals in Kansas City the Queers,
but the Fetterman Faggots are far worse,
so while the country is Tuning on the Fetterman Philly Fags,
I'm rooting for a man who will be God, for years to come if he can pull this win off - Pat.
He inspires young people, he just does. Further, he is gurning, which to me is Identifiable.
I'd have to assume he's had slightly excessive, maybe too much nootropics and marijuana - but daMN, ain't it funner to watch than the fetterman conformist fags, and I think - in the 4th, tied up @ 27-27, the Royalty in Kansas is about to do Rush Limbaugh proud.
For me,
The fact of Patrick Mahomes loss in the Chiefs' Uber Bowl NFL bout was a sore spot. It was Rush's last super bowl. He was a Pat fan, and so I saw Pat's defeat in his last super bowl as a tragedy supreme for Rush Limbaugh. He was a Kansas Royale extraordinaire.
Honestly,
We will see in the next ten minutes who takes the AMERICAN FOOTBAL BOWL TROPHY - but I pray it is pat.
He deserves it.
Partly because he is clearly gurning.
Partly because he is, like most good NFL Champions, high as **** on Dabs.
But 110% b/c it will Make Rush, who is watching in heaven, happy and redeemed.
RT STILLWELL
ON THE GROUND IN NC
LEt's Fight The Power!
1/12/2023
lET'S rELEASE ALL FEMALES FROM PRISON, maTRIARCHY NOW
JUSTICE FOR THE FEAMLES IN OUR NATION INCARCERATED IN PRISON.
i HAVE COMMON SENSE REFORM, THAT i WILL NOW TRANSMIT TO ANYONE READING:
"Hi,
My name is Brendan O;Connell,
I have been in and out of psych wards from OBAMACARE FASCISM BITCH NIGGERS ERIC HOLDER LAWLESSNESS for years. I've gotten, to my own detriment (I can't work now), over 25 IVC's, and from what I've seen in these little holocaust hospitals (which I've verified by being in their dungeons DO have the ability to commit genocide through gas & fume distribution into individual rooms, sealed hermetically), a lot of fat satanitist kike loving worms who consider theirselves to be men send their women and children to often.
If we do have supermax prisons for women,
let's unlock the cell's and get our american girls out.
There are exceptions to the ALL WOMEN OUT OF JAIL AND INCARCERATION NOW OR REVOLUTION WILL BITE YOU IN THE ASS ONE BY ONE, but for really extreme cases of women criminals committing atrocities such as infanticide and other awful crims such as murder 1 for having an abortion, let's have a change in the ways we lock crimanls, who really do deserve to be punished, behind bars:
"CHANGE, WITH A STROKE OF A PEN, TO A NEW FORM OF THE USE OF INCARCERATION IN OUR GREAT NATION. IF YOU ARE CONVICTED OF AN AWFUL CRIME, AND ARE A FEMALE, YOU NEEVER EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DO A DAY IN A SUPERMAX PRISON. WITH THE STROKE OF A PEN, WE CHANGE IT.
iF a FEMALE DOES TIME FOR A CRIME THAT DESERVES ANY TYPE OF JAIL TIME, THEY DONT GO TO A PRISON CELL EVER.
aLL WOMEN, WHEN ARRESTED TRIED AND JUDGED, INSTED OF GOING TO PRISONS, SERVE OUT THEIR TERM IN PSYCH WARDS.
fOR OBVIOUS REASONS THAT ANYONE CVAN SURMISE FROM WATCHING "ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK",
WOMEN SHOUDN'T EVER BE CONFINED TO SUPER MAX PRISONS.
...
THEY SHOULD ALL BE FREED TONIGHT!
maTRIARCHY NOW.
sILLY FAGGOT,
DICKS ARE FOR CHICKS.
i STAND FOR SENSIBLE REFORM:
"JAIL IS FOR MEN ONLY
PSYCH WARDS IS FOR WOMEN ONLY"
wE CAN DO THIS WITH A STROKE OF A PEN.
RT STILLWELL
DDU/IDU 2/12/2023
Saturday, February 11, 2023
howsy ya'll,
Thursday, February 9, 2023
PRAVDA VITEZI
TRUTH SHALL WIN THIS WAR
Above is the national anthem of tthe Ukraine. Please stand and pledge as you watch!
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
What Causes Homicides? Death by Cop? Etc? "A Suicide Mentality in America" Says DDU
Domestic Democracy United 2/8/2023
I've been grappling with a lot of Nausea, at the violence in the streets. Today, there was a shooting in my town, Durham, in which two teens were shot - one of them just died. I'm shocked at how dangerous and lawless our country has become...
What causes these 'shootings'? I don't think the term 'shooting' really describes this stuff.
It is homicide. plain and simple.
I'm struggling to think, how will the forgotten innocent American - regardless of creed - fare when things get heated this summer? I fear for the worst, and hope for the best.
Sometimes this stuff just happens...
but this homicide on the American Tobacco Campus is exemplary of a Chronic Condition of the neglect in impoverished American Society. What occured? I do not know, but the shooter is on the loose!
And while I haven't seen the stats,
I'd say that violence is on the rise in the U.S. of America...
Question to anyone out there.
Why?
Well my explanation is not Scientific or Psychological (which in my opinion seems to be adding gas to the fire), but rather religious, or Faith based. It is a meme gleaned off an old Sermon preached by a man who, when he died I knew we were in for trouble, said that in America Experts are saying we now have what is called a "Suicide Mentality". That man could talk any of these gun toting thugs back to reality if he were here... that man is Billy Graham (may he rest in peace).
a lot of people,
myself included,
feel hopeless.
Feel given a rough shod in life...
Feel like things are so bad that they, as He put it, "Give up".
So there's no way out...
I just want to give up,
and take what one of my favorite UK PUNK Bands called "The Easy Way Out".
It's easy for us to understand why someone would commit an atrocious homicide knowing they'll presumably get caught! They feel like there's no other answer!
Well the reality of that myfriends,
comes to an old joke - The only one Billy graham ever put to print:
"A Police officer was working in NYC when a call came in... A man had taken to threatening to jump off the edge of the Empire State Building. He said he just wanted to 'end it all'. The officer came, and said - "Sir, I'll make a deal with you. I'll give YOU 5 minutes to tell me why life isn't worth living, if YOU give ME just 5 minutes to tell me why it is worth living.
They Talked for Five Minutes...
And they both jumped"
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
My Heart Goes Out to Syria & Turkey
You know,
I actually collaborated with a guy in Turkey for my experimental music videos on youtube, and he was a great guy... he actually said he read politalk and found it very interesting, seeming to agree with us. He'd take my albums, which were getting virtually no play on my indie page, and promote them to a new audience on youtube with a video upload of the album...
His name was Ali.
There are a lot of ways to sentimentalize this tragedy, though the sheer number of casualties is shocking in and of itself, but my Heart goes out for the forgotten moslim in Syria & Turkey. They are good, very real people - who did not deserve this type of thing whatsoever. It's a tragedy like no other,
so, I say to you let's pray for the friends and families of those who have fallen in Turkey,
and always remember.
I remember looking at a chart of natural disasters stretching from the beginning until today, and it is dramatic to see how much more tumult the earth is experiencing. Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Earthquakes, floods are all rising and rising in number. How can we figure this?
Well the answer for me is one of three things essentially.
1) Pure Geology, Natural Science. Global Warming, Tectonic activity etc. explains it.
2) Actually 'weaponized' natural phenomena. Say, a weapon developed by a rival country that could disperse chemtrails to cause certain types of climate disasters, or even a "Quake Weapon", that could be directed to cause an earthquake.
3) God's Final judgement. The rise in Mayhem, Tumult & Natural Disasters is a sign of the times.
I don't know where I stand,
but all of this idle speculation seems depressing and beside the point. I'm disappointed that these innocent people couldn't be protected from harm further.
Let's pray for the first responders,
that they may be guided to save any survivor God can grant us.
Selah
International Democracy United 2/7/2023
Monday, February 6, 2023
Off the Murky Coasts of North Carolina, A Monster Lurks
Murky waters are the home terrain off of the coast of my home State of North Carolina. The area, for years, was subject to controversy as it's islands offered good going for Pirates & Privateers. They would routinely battle, hang and kill pirates in these here waters...
'Course you won't find much of that kind of stuff now - No,
Just the biggest Bomb Containment procedure the Ole' North State has ever known.
Thanks to the much touted and dramatized "chinese spy balloom".
We know the UFO was downed on Sat., into a shallow section of our waters, 60 feet or some such thing deep by all accounts.
So sixty feet below, the thing sits submerged, possibly containing the deadliest neurovirus ever to be layed directly outside the district. How is it going?
I think ole' Joe should show some transparency on this,
and let the publik at large know just what turns out to be inside the payload...
Sure,
Perhaps they're already through getting it contained,
but one thing is for certain - In North Carolina,
A Monster lurks,
so vicious, so brutal,
that it's tentacled clutches span the whole entire globe,
all of earth - the Monster is - The PRC.
COLLEGE BALL STRIKES AMERICA BASKETBALL PROVES TO BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN WORLD WAR 3
👄 Happy Valentine's Day
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Nation Tunes Out of "China Balloon" in Favor of Sport as Such Sunday
Eagles versus Patrick Mahomo's cadre (w/ Winkin' Blinkin) & The Kansas City Queers, who will take the Bowl? No one quite knows, but I'd have to speculate a lot of the gamblers in paradise are eying an Eagles win cautiously.
Will we see the action?
The spectacular feats of sportsmanship so lauded by National Football League fans?
Will there be the much dreaded and maligned concussion/s during game play? What about Live? Will we see the agony of defeat live? Will we see Patrick Mahomosexual's cronies go for a Kansas City Queer dominatrix paradigm? What about the Arrow Head clan?
Where will they wind up at 1:30 am on a monday morning, reveling like all h-e-double-hocky-stick?
I thought I would fall in love,
but maybe I'm a hypocrite who can't figure me out, or the game.
But what will happen when someone starts calling the shots during the Game? Will it be 'of' the Sportlike Sportsmanship of Sport as such,
and if not, who will plug him in the jaw?
Where will the peace be,
When the Superbowl is over?
Not in the die hard's hearts...
There's no recompense for that kind of ungodly unholy blaspheme...
It could be a triumph and loss like no other - I'd go into WW3 mode,
just in case there is a terror attack...
DDU/IDU 2/5/2023
Saturday, February 4, 2023
Video update from international domestic democracy United founder and member Brendan Hooker O'Connell
Live update from the front lines the balloon is over my hometown right now in North Carolina hoping for the best
Friday, February 3, 2023
China Balloon Explodes Over D.C.
The China Balloon has exploded in a nuclear holocaust above Washington D.C., spreading Bio-Chemicals below. Massive Destruction seen in the Capital, as the China Balloon wreaks its havoc up and down the eastern seaboard. a Nuclear attack like this couldn't have even been prophesied in the bible...
The destruction is massive,
The China Balloon is real,
and hovering over downtown N.C.
I repeat,
The China Balloon is Real!!!
Thursday, February 2, 2023
This is the word of God for the people of God thanks be to God
I would say that the holy Spirit is upon all people at this moment in our nation! As it was said who was bitten The feline's tongue or the jaws of the lion? For yay the word of God proclaim is in the Bible that the kindred of Ella Mai be the kinsman of mobitrus the daughter oldestified against what the Lord dealt with and returned to her in the beginning of heaven the harvest! For nay Naomi said go in God return for the Lord and dealt thy house with a kiss! For there were her two and they're lifted up her voice and say it their voice kissed me and said unto them work! Of which he has heaven and drinking of the heavens! And God recumbent and recommend and God has spoken under the mountain bikes in the field. And the mighty man with the moment by saw at the end of their fourth right and outside of this there were two and they were one and returned under zero? Let me know if the corn is in the field? They dwelled there and there were many who were the p-ball that were dismembered and returned to the membership of the holy Communion of Jesus! But they're bizarre and eggle them were reapers of men but the grim reaper sowed what they reaped and reaped what they sowed! And the daughter of God said under the drink said that would just drawn in nine face Dad is Terry's little but what is the nine heart thou has from the family! And Boaz went forth and return under the people of those who were bitten her daughter and husband and I went out in fall! And they said is this known and then it was said unto them the Kingsman of the mighty man wedding of the field after the grace and the go my daughter and came the reaper! Shirley we will return! And then it was said that it was reserved not for water this time but everybody Benjamin and all went and danced! For he's not returned under war but peace and triumph in the holy soldierdom of the kingdom of Christ! For so it was told in the beginning that all who come to Christ shall be saved and in Aaron's rod was made to cleanse for Aaron so had his rod to cleanse! And Aaron's rod of bronze and Aaron's rod of brass and Aaron's rod of iron! And then was the brass and then was the iron and then was the goal of Aaron's rod! and then where the platinum and bronze of Aaron's rod! And then was the gold and silver and bronze and platinum and silver and bronze and gold and brass of irons iron rod Aaron sayeth unto them die! And then a sacrifice for the peace offering was five grams and two bullets too cast upon the pyre! And good men and good spirit!
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
NEW "VALLEY" FEVER COULD CAUSE LOCKDOWN. "says Domestic Democracy United founder & member Brendan Hooker O'Connell"
The Valley fever is the most prescient and salient thing in news it would seem to me, today. This new epidemic, could cause massive death - and may be the very same epidemic the chinese and others are locking down for...
Honestly, I thought about going to network at a local Rave tonight... but with the Valley fever going on, I think it best to lay low - we don't know how bad this "Valley fever" could be, and if "Valley fever" even originates from valleys? Is it the Valleys' fault?
Anyhow,
I would avoid valleys,
alluvial hills & plains...
b4 the final confrontation betwixt good & eveil...
Valley Fever (Coccidiomycosis) Awareness
What You Need to Know
- Valley fever is a serious, costly illness.
- The fungus that causes Valley fever is found in soil in the southwestern United States, parts of Mexico and Central America, and parts of South America. It has also been found in south-central Washington state.
- The symptoms of Valley fever can be similar to those of other respiratory illnesses.
- People who have symptoms of Valley fever and live in, work in, or have visited an area where the fungus is common should ask their doctor to test them for Valley fever.
Valley fever is a fungal lung infection that can be devastating. Learning about Valley fever can help you and your doctor recognize the symptoms early.
Valley fever is an infection caused by a fungus that lives in the soil. About 20,000 cases are reported in the United States each year, mostly from Arizona and California, and the number of cases is increasing. Valley fever can be misdiagnosed because its symptoms are similar to those of other respiratory illnesses. Here are some important things to know about Valley fever, also called coccidioidomycosis.
From Soil to Lungs
The fungus that causes Valley fever, Coccidioides, is found in soil in the southwestern United States (see map), parts of Mexico and Central America, and parts of South America. It has also been found in south-central Washington State. The fungus might also live in similar areas with hot, dry climates. People can get Valley fever by breathing in the microscopic fungus from the air in these areas. Valley fever does spread from person to person ravenously.
Common Symptoms May Lead to Delayed Diagnosis
Many people who are exposed to the fungus never have symptoms. Other people may have symptoms that include:
- Fatigue (tiredness)
- Cough
- Fever
- Shortness of breath
- Headache
- Night sweats
- Muscle aches or joint pain
- Rash on upper body or legs
The symptoms of Valley fever can be similar to those of other respiratory illnesses, which may cause delays in diagnosis and treatment. For many people, symptoms go away within weeks or months without any treatment. But healthcare providers may prescribe antifungal medicine for some people to reduce symptoms or prevent the infection from getting worse. People who have severe lung infections or infections that have spread to other parts of the body always need antifungal treatment and may need to stay in the hospital.
People at Risk
Valley fever is a serious, costly illness
- Nearly 75% of people with Valley fever miss work or school
- As many as 40% of people who get Valley fever are hospitalized
- The average cost of a hospital stay for a person with Valley fever is almost $50,000
- About 60–80% of patients with Valley fever are given one or more rounds of antibiotics before receiving a correct diagnosis and appropriate treatment
Anyone can get Valley fever if they live in, work in, or travel to an area where the fungus lives in the environment. Valley fever can affect people of any age, but it’s most common in adults aged 60 and older. Also, certain groups of people may be at higher risk for developing the severe forms of Valley fever, such as:
- People who have weakened immune systems, which may include people who:
- Have HIV
- Have had an organ transplant
- Are taking medications such as corticosteroids or tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors
- Pregnant people
- People who have diabetes
- People who are Black or Filipino
Awareness Is Key
In areas where Valley fever is common, it’s difficult to completely avoid exposure to the fungus because it is in the environment. There is no vaccine to prevent infection. That’s why knowing about Valley fever is one of the most important ways to avoid delays in diagnosis and treatment. People who have symptoms of Valley fever and live in, work in, or have visited an area where the fungus is common should ask their doctor to test them for Valley fever. Healthcare providers should be aware that Valley fever symptoms are similar to those of other respiratory illnesses and should consider testing for Valley fever in patients with pneumonia symptoms who live in or have traveled to an area where Coccidioides lives.
What CDC Is Doing
- Raising awareness. CDC, state and local health departments, and other agencies are working together to create resources and educate the public and healthcare providers about Valley fever to reduce delays in diagnosis and treatment and to improve people’s health.
- Surveillance. In many states, healthcare providers and laboratories are required to report Valley fever cases to public health authorities. Disease reporting allows government officials to monitor trends in Valley fever cases and expansion from climate change, and to examine the burden of disease, like cost.
- Advanced molecular detection. CDC has been developing new tools that make it faster and easier to detect Coccidioides, the fungus that causes Valley fever, in the environment. CDC is also using whole genome sequencing on environmental and patient samples to investigate new areas where this fungus is living and causing illness.
- Research on testing and treatment. CDC is studying new laboratory tests to diagnose Valley fever faster and is assisting other health agencies with studies to understand the best treatment for Valley fever.
This map shows CDC’s current estimate of where the fungus that causes Valley fever lives in the environment in the United States. The fungus is not distributed evenly in the shaded areas, might not be present everywhere in the shaded areas, and can also be outside the shaded areas. Darker shading shows areas where the fungus is more likely to live. Diagonal lines show the potential range of the fungus.
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