Rob Purdie
Rob Purdie is a founding member of the nonprofit MYCare, dedicated to raising awareness and promoting research on fungal diseases. His own experience with a Coccidioides infection, which spread to his brain and resulted in fungal meningitis, has fueled his advocacy for education and better treatment options for such infections.
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Rob Purdie from California contracted Valley fever in 2012 when he was 38, which led to meningitis and severe headaches.
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Rob Purdie thinks he was outside his Bakersfield, California home, working in his garden, when he inhaled Coccidioides spores in 2012.
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