Hantavirus

[dusty3030]

never had the curly 70's hair.

plus that guy is way too young.. and doesn't have a 8" beard and tons of grey hair now.

Thanks for being a sport, couldn't help myself.
I'm the guy the old ladies are talking about when they say " that boy just ain't right"

 

[Western]

" that boy just ain't right"

Thats the truth!! I see in your Avatar you let a little young man take away your tractor:confused3::laughing: (kidding of course)

 

[Jerry Genesio]

Not to belittle anyone's loss, but a little perspective. 660 deaths in two decades is not exactly widespread - Lightning kills three times that many on average. I wonder if the mortality rate is overinflated due to hantavirus infections that are mistaken as the flu. There has to be a certain level of infection in the rodent population for this to have spread across the US. And look at the number of people that come in contact with rodents/droppings. It just seems like a lot more people should have caught this, and under-reporting due to similarity of the flu sounds like a logical explanation.

Just thinking out loud, I'm not qualified or anything.

Keith

Keith, there's absolutely no doubt that there have been dozens, hundreds, perhaps even thousands of hantavirus cases that have gone unreported or were misdiagnosed. And I have little doubt that is still the case in some, perhaps most, parts of the U.S. and Canada. The first time hantavirus was recognized as something new was in 1993, and that was an outbreak with multiple victims. Maine reported its first confirmed case just last year, and on January 9 of this year hantavirus killed a man in Atlin, a town in northern British Columbia, Canada. There is no way of knowing how many deaths have been caused by hantavirus because the symptoms are so easily confused with other diseases much better known to most physicians.

 

[Jerry Genesio]

Dan, the first outbreak of hantavirus in the U.S. that was recognized as something "new" occurred in 1993 in the Four Corners, a region in the southwest that covers parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and the site of Navajo, Hopi, Ute, and Zuni tribal reserves. The Indians have long known it was there. They just didn't know what it was.