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azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:06 PM Sep 2012

3rd Yosemite visitor dies of hantavirus; 2 new cases reported

Source: LA Times

Two more cases of hantavirus infection have been linked to Yosemite National Park, one fatal and the other believed to have originated in the park's high country, marking the first time the outbreak has been traced beyond the Curry Village campground.

Yosemite officials announced the two additional cases after health authorities confirmed them Thursday morning, park spokesman Scott Gediman said. The fatality was reported by the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department in West Virginia, which revealed few details about the victim except that the person visited the park "in recent months."

Gediman said the victim stayed in one of 91 "signature tent cabins" in Curry Village in mid-June. Park officials have attributed seven of the eight cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome — three of which have been fatal — to the insulated signature tent cabins and warned that anyone who stayed there between June 10 and Aug. 24 was at risk.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-yosemite-hantavirus-20120907,0,6877933.story

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3rd Yosemite visitor dies of hantavirus; 2 new cases reported (Original Post) azurnoir Sep 2012 OP
Some news sources are calling it an "epidemic" dixiegrrrrl Sep 2012 #1
Not LBN . That news is from Thursday , not today , dipsydoodle Sep 2012 #2
Date of the article seems to fall within LBN guidelines though. uppityperson Sep 2012 #3

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
1. Some news sources are calling it an "epidemic"
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:00 PM
Sep 2012

in very alarmist tones.
Is that virus contagious to other people, I wonder....

uppityperson

(115,674 posts)
3. Date of the article seems to fall within LBN guidelines though.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 08:04 PM
Sep 2012

"News stories must have been published within the last 12 hours"

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