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发帖数: 8927 | 1 出事了，不卫生啊。相比较还是自己的帐篷好。
http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Mouse-borne-virus-kills-Yo
Mouse-borne virus kills Yosemite visitor
Erin Allday
Updated 8:19 p.m., Thursday, August 16, 2012
A Bay Area man has died after contracting the rare hantavirus - a viral
infection carried by mice and passed to humans by the rodents' feces or
urine - that he was probably exposed to while staying in Yosemite's popular
Curry Village tent cabins, public health officials said Thursday.
The 37-year-old man, whose name and hometown were not released, died in late
July, about six weeks after his stay in Yosemite National Park. Another
visitor to the park, a woman in her 40s who lives in Southern California,
also became sick with hantavirus but is expected to survive, according to
the state Public Health Department.
The woman and the Bay Area man were in Yosemite at the same time in mid-June
and staying in cabins about 100 feet from each other, but did not know each
other, Yosemite officials said.
Lab tests taken after the two fell ill confirmed that the virus was present
in fecal matter from mice trapped near Curry Village, a collection of tents
and cabins in the eastern end of Yosemite Valley.
"The mice shed the virus in urine, in feces, and when the urine or feces, or
nests, are disturbed, the virus can become airborne and infect people,"
said Vicki Kramer, chief of the state health agency's vector-borne disease
section.
Both victims suffered from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. It can take up to
two weeks for symptoms to appear after exposure to hantavirus.
Most people suffer flu-like symptoms first, including fever, headache and
muscle pains, often in the thighs, back and hips. After two to seven days,
many patients have severe difficulty breathing and can die.
There is no cure or virus-specific treatment for hantavirus. Patients
typically are hospitalized and get help breathing while their body tries to
fight off the virus.
'Bad options'
"It's supportive treatment only. We have pretty unacceptably bad options for
treating hantavirus," said Dr. D. Scott Smith, chief of infectious disease
and geographic medicine at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Redwood City.
"By the time someone comes in with a bad cough and a fever, sometimes it's
too late."
There have been about 60 cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome reported in
California since the virus was identified in the United States in 1993.
About a third of those patients died. So far this year, there have been four
cases of hantavirus reported in California.
The virus is most commonly seen in the eastern Sierra and is rare in lower-
elevation parts of the state. These two most recent cases are the first ever
to be reported from Yosemite Valley, although the national park has had two
cases in past years, both in visitors to the higher-elevation Tuolumne
Meadows, said park spokesman Scott Gediman.
In California, the virus is spread primarily via deer mice, which have solid
-colored backs and white bellies and generally live at higher elevations.
Yosemite officials regularly monitor the activity of deer mice in the park,
and crews that clean tent cabins are instructed to inspect rooms for mouse
droppings, Gediman said.
No infestations
After the recent hantavirus cases were connected to the park, officials with
the state Public Health Department and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention visited Yosemite and found no evidence of mouse infestations
or unclean lodgings, Gediman said.
He and public health officials advised visitors to Yosemite and elsewhere in
the Sierra to take precautions against contracting hantavirus.
People should avoid leaving food in the open, which can draw mice, and they
should avoid contact with mouse feces or nests.
Erin Allday is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: eallday@
sfchronicle.com
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Mouse-borne-virus-kills-Yosemite-visitor-3794369.php#ixzz23lqQbpDx | m****t
发帖数: 754 | 2 靠 正准备下周末住那里呢 这不是吭爹吗？？？
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【在 W**********r 的大作中提到】
: 出事了，不卫生啊。相比较还是自己的帐篷好。
: http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Mouse-borne-virus-kills-Yo
: Mouse-borne virus kills Yosemite visitor
: Erin Allday
: Updated 8:19 p.m., Thursday, August 16, 2012
: A Bay Area man has died after contracting the rare hantavirus - a viral
: infection carried by mice and passed to humans by the rodents' feces or
: urine - that he was probably exposed to while staying in Yosemite's popular
: Curry Village tent cabins, public health officials said Thursday.
: The 37-year-old man, whose name and hometown were not released, died in late
| j****n
发帖数: 4358 | 3 那是住呢还是不住呢？
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: 靠 正准备下周末住那里呢 这不是吭爹吗？？？
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| S**********r
发帖数: 1410 | 4 保命要紧
【在 j****n 的大作中提到】
: 那是住呢还是不住呢？
| W**********r
发帖数: 8927 | 5 "the virus can become airborne and infect people"
自己想想吧
【在 j****n 的大作中提到】
: 那是住呢还是不住呢？
| W**********r
发帖数: 8927 | 6 Yosemite disease warning for 1,700 tourists
http://www.sfgate.com/columns/slideshow/Yosemite-disease-warnin
靠，取消我的Camp Site的预定了，今年不去了
popular
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【在 W**********r 的大作中提到】
: 出事了，不卫生啊。相比较还是自己的帐篷好。
: http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Mouse-borne-virus-kills-Yo
: Mouse-borne virus kills Yosemite visitor
: Erin Allday
: Updated 8:19 p.m., Thursday, August 16, 2012
: A Bay Area man has died after contracting the rare hantavirus - a viral
: infection carried by mice and passed to humans by the rodents' feces or
: urine - that he was probably exposed to while staying in Yosemite's popular
: Curry Village tent cabins, public health officials said Thursday.
: The 37-year-old man, whose name and hometown were not released, died in late
| j**y
发帖数: 5059 | 7 谨慎点好
【在 W**********r 的大作中提到】
: Yosemite disease warning for 1,700 tourists
: http://www.sfgate.com/columns/slideshow/Yosemite-disease-warnin
: 靠，取消我的Camp Site的预定了，今年不去了
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