On 5 July 2011, a massive dust storm struck Phoenix, Arizona (USA), raising concerns for
increased cases of valley fever (coccidioidomycosis, or, cocci). A quasi-operational …

A dust storm of fearful proportions hit Phoenix in the early evening hours of 5 July 2011. This
storm, an American haboob, was predicted hours in advance because numerical, land …

Arid regions, the source of most airborne mineral dusts, comprise a third of the Earth's land
surface, where some two billion people are exposed daily to the fine particles raised by …

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This chapter addresses how atmospheric constituents and events impact human health, and
how environmental monitoring has aided our understanding of them. The principal focus is …