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Eugene

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Thu Sep 13, 2012, 10:12 PM Sep 2012

Yosemite Park hantavirus alert to 230,000 campers

Source: BBC

13 September 2012 Last updated at 20:12 ET

Yosemite Park hantavirus alert to 230,000 campers

Yosemite park rangers have expanded a health advisory about a killer virus to nearly a quarter of a million people who have stayed there since June.

The mouse-borne hantavirus is now known to have infected nine people - three of whom have died. There is no known cure.

Officials at the California park insist their letters to more than 230,000 people are purely precautionary.

Deer mice, which spread the infection, have increased in number and now the rodents are being trapped and killed.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19594542
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Yosemite Park hantavirus alert to 230,000 campers (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2012 OP
Scary stuff,very scary. virgogal Sep 2012 #1
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