Anyone really bored?

Just pulling this out of my a$$ but I'd guess the valley fever, as it is unlikely such a large number of what I would assume to be relatively healthy Americans would contract TB even if exposed. Valley fever is not indigenous to Penn. so the church workers would have no antibodies to it.

TB is transmitted thru airborne droplets. VF is transmitted thru exposure to the soil. They were there to do construction on a new church.

Talk about coincidence..I ran into an aquaintance at church tonight who I hadnt seen in a while and she told me she contracted Valley Fever while in Arizona. She was immunosupressed secondary to being on prednisone for RA so don't know if she'd have been susceptible to it otherwise:) Anyway, she's been sick as a dog.

I had never heard of valley fever til reading your post, then meet someone:bugeyes: who has it:)