Word: hantaviruses
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...heard about the victims who died in the Northwest from eating undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers tainted with a hazardous strain of E. coli bacteria. They were told to cook their chicken thoroughly to avoid food poisoning from salmonella bacteria. And last year they saw how the rare hantavirus, once unknown in the U.S., emerged from mice to kill 30 people in as many as 20 states...
Another resident, Patrick Hall, says he is concerned about possible a health hazard. In February, New York health officials traced the death of a Long Island college student to a virus known as hantavirus which is spread through mouse droppings...
...hantavirus, a rodent-borne killer that swept through the Four Corners area of the American Southwest last spring, has claimed its first life in the Northeast. Health officials have not yet determined how or when 22-year-old David Rosenberg of Rosyln, New York, became infected. Fifty-nine people have developed the infection so far; the disease, which is difficult to treat, is fatal 60% of the time...
...Health officials report that the deadly hantavirus that last year killed 32 people in the Southwest has made its first appearance east of the Mississippi, in a Florida drug-treatment center...
Flulike symptoms could be the work of the deadly hantavirus...