Friday 14 September 2012

Yosemite Extends Hantavirus Warning; 9th Infection Confirmed

Yosemite National Park expanded a warning about the deadly hantavirus to 230,000 more recent visitors and confirmed on Thursday that a ninth person had contracted the virus, which has already killed three people.


In this undated handout from the Centers for Disease Control image library, this transmission electron micrograph (TEM) reveals the ultrastructural appearance of a number of virus particles, or “virions”, of a hantavirus known as the Sin Nombre virus (SNV). REUTERS/Cynthia Goldsmith/CDC/Handout



Source: Reuters Health

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