10,000 EXPOSED TO KILLER VIRUS [View all]

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Last edited Fri Aug 31, 2012, 10:35 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: express.co.uk

Up to 10,000 people who stayed in lodging cabins at Yosemite National Park may have been exposed to a deadly mouse-borne virus that has killed two people.
Park concessionaire Delaware North sent letters and emails this week to nearly 3,000 people who reserved the insulated Signature cabins between June and August, warning them that they might have been exposed.

The cabins hold up to four people and park spokesman Scott Gediman said Friday that could mean up to 7,000 more visitors might have been exposed to the virus that so far has killed two people and made four others ill.



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(More at the link. Misleading headline but LBN forces the direct and literal use...I would have posted "3000 poss. exposed", and wouldn't have used all caps. PS: Hantavirus.)

Reuters:

Two men died from the rare lung disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, and four other people survived the rodent-borne illness. Most of the victims are believed to have contracted the virus while staying in tent-style cabins this summer in a popular camping area called Curry Village.

Park officials earlier this week shut down 91 insulated tent-cabins after finding deer mice, which carry the disease and can burrow through pencil-sized holes, nesting between the double walls of the structures.

Park authorities have notified 2,900 parties of visitors who rented the tent cabins from June through August that they may have been exposed to hantavirus.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/uk-usa-hantavirus-yosemite-idUSLNE87U00E20120831?feedType=RSS&amp