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Up to 10,000 campers at Yosemite National Park may have been exposed to a deadly rodent-borne illness. Kent Sepkowitz on how Hanta is spread—and why a big outbreak is unlikely.
Alarmingly, the disease has no specific treatment. There is no known effective antiviral drug, no vaccine, and no preventative medication. Rather, patients with the disease are given “supportive care,” including intravenous fluids, blood products as needed, and oxygen, and are managed according to whatever symptoms they may develop. The only good news about the disease is that, unlike so many other viruses ranging from influenza to Ebola, this one is not contagious person-to-person. Only the unlucky soul directly exposed to the virus at its environmental source itself becomes ill.
Weaponization Korean hemorrhagic fever (Hantavirus) was one of three hemorrhagic fevers and one of more than a dozen agents that the United States researched as potential biological weapons before suspending its biological weapons program.
However, infection via human-to-human contact has since been proven in Hantavirus outbreaks in Argentina
Originally posted by freemarketsocialist
I saw it yesterday on the news ticker.
America doesnt want the world to know that they have the Black Death.
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
Originally posted by freemarketsocialist
I saw it yesterday on the news ticker.
America doesnt want the world to know that they have the Black Death.
Not to be a downer here and im sure you know but the "Black Death" was beubonic plague.....
not the same as Hantavirus........
Theres also been news that there might have been some more outbreaks in New Mexico and possibly yellowstone as well, these were briefly mentioned, and now I cant find ANYTHING on them anywhere.......
Its strange how the media will hop up stories and coverage of things like Swine Flu, but keep mum on truly deadly viruses and infections such as these
Interestingly, while HPS was not known to the epidemiologic and medical communities, there is evidence that it was recognized elsewhere. The Navajo Indians, a number of whom contracted HPS during the 1993 outbreak, recognize a similar disease in their medical traditions, and actually associate its occurrence with mice. As strikingly, Navajo medical beliefs concur with public health recommendations for preventing the disease.
Originally posted by TrueBrit
reply to post by OneisOne
Well, damn. I think perhaps ATS search needs some Altoids or something, or maybe some No Doz. Certainly must have been asleep on the job when I searched for the subject!
Originally posted by Morningglory
I'm in southern Colorado. We're warned about hantavirus as well as bubonic plague. We all take precautions and in my area very few, if any, get infected.
I think the problem is the mouse population has exploded. I know it has in my neck of the woods. Typically we get lots of snow in March/April but this year we got heat instead.
I've never seen so many mice running around during the day ever. Thankfully my cats keep them away from the house but it's really odd to see so many out and about.
People are at risk anywhere there's mouse droppings. I wouldn't stay in a cabin/house that's been empty for more than a week. Even outdoors we've got to be careful not to stir up nests.
I wonder if Yosemite has seen an increase in numbers too? I thought it was just us. We've always had mice but never like this.
In 2006, Colorado had four cases of plague, all in La Plata County, Joe Fowler, a disease-control nurse with the San Juan Basin Health Department said.
A 7-year-old girl from Pagosa Springs is the first confirmed case of bubonic plague in Colorado since 2006. Sierra Jane Downing is in stable condition in the pediatric care
In recent decades, the average number of cases of bubonic plague annually nationwide is seven, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.