U.S. health
officials have alerted thirty-none countries that their citizens, who,
as tourists, have stayed in Yosemite National Park tent cabins this
summer, may have been exposed to a deadly mouse-borne hantavirus
U.S. health officials have alerted
thirty-none countries that their citizens, who, as tourists, have
stayed in Yosemite National Park tent cabins this summer, may have been
exposed to a deadly mouse-borne hantavirus, a park service
epidemiologist said on Wednesday.
Fox News reports
that currently, estimations say there are 10,000 people who could be at
risk of contracting hantavirus pulmonary syndrome from their stays in
Yosemite between June and August. Of the 10,000, about 2,500 people live
outside the United States, Dr. David Wong told Reuters.
According to Wong, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notified the countries this weekend, most of which are in the European Union.
The lung disease has killed two men so far and landed four others in hospitals, all U.S. citizens, which prompted the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue the alert. Of the four still alive, three have recovered and one remains hospitalized, according to HHS.
Most of the victims identified so far are believed to have been
infected while staying in one of the ninety-one “signature” tent-style
cabins in the park’s Curry Village.
Last week park officials shut down the tent cabins after locating
deer mice, which carry the disease and can burrow through the holes and
infest the double walls of the cabins.
There is no cure for the disease, but early detection significantly
increases the chances for survival, something Wong wants people to take
seriously. “I want people to know about this so they take it seriously,”
Wong told Reuters. “We’re doing our due diligence to share the information.”
Early symptoms include headache, fever, shortness of breath, muscle
aches, and coughing. The virus incubates for up to six weeks after
exposure and may lead to severe breathing difficulties and death.
The disease was originally detected in 1993. It kills about 36
percent of those infected and has not been known to be transmitted from
human to humans.
The virus is carried in particles inhaled from rodent feces and
urine. People are also infected by eating food that has been
contaminated by the particles, touching contaminated surfaces, and being
bitten by rodents who are infected.
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