Figure 11.

Myrnie Ada Gifford. Gifford received her MD from Stanford in 1920 and, subsequently, an MPH from Johns Hopkins, and became Chief Assistant Health Officer of Kern County, California. She was key in the determination that San Joaquin Valley fever was caused by Coccidioides, the same fungus that caused coccidioidal granuloma. The first Coccidioidomycosis Symposium was held in her honor and a library in the Kern County Public Health Department was named after her. Gifford lived from 1892 to 1966. Permission: Bakersfield Observer, courtesy of Kern County Museum.