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To: Slyfox

Not that I’m aware of. HV is passed to humans when they inhale dust contaminated with urine from an infected rodent. It’s primarily a disease of the rodents. Has done a pretty good job of wiping out prairie dog colonies.

It may have been much more virulent in the past and even transmissible between humans in some way, as it may have played a major role in the Great Die-off of native Americans during the 1500s.


34 posted on 11/20/2010 3:25:44 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Cancel that bit about HV and prairie dogs. The disease that wipes out their colonies is a different one.


35 posted on 11/20/2010 3:29:11 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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