While between 10,000 and 20,000 cases are reported to the CDC every year, a vaccine for Valley fever is potentially getting closer to becoming a reality. “The vaccine is actually in development right now,” said Dr. John Galgiani, who directs the University of Arizona’s Valley Fever Center for Excellence. “There’s a vaccine which hopefully within the next year may be available to veterinarians to protect dogs from Valley fever, who get this disease several times more commonly than humans do.”