http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hantavirus/ en-us Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:43:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111467/posts One day last October, Eric York lugged the carcass of an adult mountain lion from his truck and laid it carefully on a tarp on the floor of his garage. The female mountain lion had a bloody nose, but her hide bore no other signs of trauma. York, a biologist at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, found the big cat lying motionless near the canyon’s South Rim. He was determined to learn why she died. Because the park lacks a forensics lab, he did the postmortem in his garage, in a village of about 2,000 park employees. Epidemic experts... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111467/posts#comment Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:43:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026578/posts Health department recommends residents take precautions Public-health officials are urging residents to take precautions to avoid hantavirus. Four cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome have already been reported in 2008, with one resulting in a fatality. The most recent cases were confirmed last week in Delta and Dolores counties. Two previous cases of hantavirus were reported in Kiowa County in February and Fremont County in early May. The patient in Kiowa County died. "This year's heavy snowpack has provided moisture for ample vegetation that provides food for rodents, and often results in a large jump in both mouse populations and infection... The Durango Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026578/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:07:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004585/posts Associated Press HELENA n The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services says a Big Horn County man has died of hantavirus. The agency says it was the first death this year due to hantavirus. The name of the 64-year-old man was not released Friday. He died earlier this week. Montana has had eight reported hantavirus deaths since 1993. The last was in January 2007. In total, the state has had 29 reported infections since 1993. Hantavirus is contracted by inhaling airborne particles from the droppings of deer mice. Symptoms may include fever, vomiting, muscle and body aches and... missoulian.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004585/posts#comment Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:53:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608706/posts MISSOULA, Mont. — First came the knapweed. Then came the gall fly. And now the mice population is exploding — the mice that carry hantavirus. In a classic case of unintended ecological consequences, an attempt to control an unwanted plant has exacerbated a human health problem. Spotted knapweed, a European plant, is a tough, spindly scourge that has spread across hills and mountainsides across the West. In Montana alone, one of the worst-hit states, it covers more than four million acres. In the 1970's, biologists imported a native enemy of knapweed, the gall fly. The insect lays eggs inside the... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608706/posts#comment Tue, 4 Apr 2006 03:16:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1587540/posts Associated Press EL PASO — An airman who was training at Fort Bliss for deployment to Iraq died of a deadly virus linked to rodents, an Air Force official said today. Senior Airman Leonard Hankerson Jr., 24, a security forces patrolman, died Feb. 11 at William Beaumont Army Hospital in El Paso. He was assigned to a squadron at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Ariz. Autopsy results confirmed last week that Hankerson had hantavirus, said Lt. Col. John Paradis, a Luke Air Force Base spokesman. The disease is transmitted to humans when they inhale particles of dried urine, feces... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1587540/posts#comment Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:13:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/905590/posts <p>WASHINGTON - Get used to SARS, West Nile, Hantavirus, Ebola, Nipah, Hendra, AIDS and other new nasty infectious diseases. Health experts say we're living in a new age of infections.</p> <p>And we have mostly ourselves to blame.</p> <p>The nation's top scientists say that environmental, economic, social and scientific changes have helped to trigger an unprecedented explosion of more than 35 new infectious diseases that have burst upon the world in the past 30 years. The U.S. death rate from infectious disease, which dropped in the first part of the 20th century and then stabilized, is now double what it was in 1980.</p> Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/905590/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2003 18:44:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866424/posts BioTerrorism Analysis: Weaponsized Infectious Disease and Emerging Disease (A Free Republic Technical Analysis) About five weeks ago, I started a technical thread that analyzed the space shuttle disaster which killed an international flight crew and lead to wreckage over the southwestern United States. In that thread, we had a remarkable range of technical and analytical skills which this website brought to bear. Because we are anonymous, we can pursue fact without fear of the liberals killing our careers or worse. Tonight, I seek to create a thread on a more serious national security problem, biological weapons of mass destruction and... 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