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Hantavirus is transmitted to humans through contact with infected rodent urine and droppings. It causes Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, a severe and often fatal form of pneumonia. Deer mice, cotton rats, and other rodents can carry the virus without symptoms but transmit it to humans. People most often contract Hantavirus by inhaling dust particles containing infected rodent excreta. Recent outbreaks have occurred in Yosemite National Park and have been linked to increased rodent populations due to abundant food sources. There is currently no vaccine or cure for Hantavirus infection.
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- 1. Hantavirus Jared Skopik By PresenterMedia.com
- 3. What is Hantavirus? Hantavirus is (according to: Microbiology with diseases by Body System written by: Robert Bauman) a group of bunyaviruses that are transmitted to humans by inhalation of virions in dried deer-mouse excreta and causes Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
- 4. What is Hantavirus? (Cont) Hantavirus Pulmonary syndrome or HPS: Is a rapid, severe, and often fatal pneumonia caused by infection with a Hantavirus.
- 5. The Severity of Hantavirus
- 6. Animals Known to Carry the Virus Deer mouse White footed mouse Rice rat Cotton rat Not all rats carry the virus, but to be safe avoid all wild mice and rats.
- 7. The Carriers Deer Mouse White Footed Mouse Rice Rat Cotton Rat http://www.cdc.gov/rodents/resources/images.h tml http://www.cdc.gov/rodents/resources/images.html http://www.cdc.gov/rodents/resources/images.html http://www.cdc.gov/rodents/resources/images.h tml
- 8. How People get Infected By breathing in the virus, this happens when the mouse/rat urine and droppings that contain the virus are stirred in the air. People can also become infected directly by touching the feces, urine, or nesting area that are contaminated with the virus, and get it on their hands and touching the extremities of ones own eyes, nose, and mouth.
- 9. The Side Effects The infected fell sick 1 to 5 weeks according to the CDC. The symptoms: Fever Severe muscle aches Fatigue
- 10. A Few Days Later People have a hard time breathing. The severity increases to: Headaches Dizziness Chills Nausea Vomiting Diarrhea Stomach pain
- 11. What Hantavirus Looks Like CBS Phsource.us Allposters.com
- 12. Why it Has Gained National Attention The Yosemite Hantavirus outbreak is unique compared to other cases. This outbreak has killed in clusters instead of individual cases as usual. http://www.businessinsider.com/yosemites-hantavirus-outbreak-kills-a-third-camper-2012-9 For an outbreak like Yosemite's, the conditions need to be "a perfect storm" of a wet, warm spring followed by a hot, dry summer, Higa said. The mild spring allows for an abundance in the deer mouse food supply. This leads to increased breeding. The behavior of the mice becomes more aggressive in competition for mates and manifests as biting. From what researchers understand, deer mice spread hantavirus among their populations by biting each other, Higa said. The rodent hosts carry the virus the rest of their lives but are not made ill by it. http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_21519711/hantavirus-concern-spreads- even-locally
- 13. Recent Events Hantavirus in Texas http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57509723-10391704/hantavirus-found-in-texas- hoarders-home-featured-on-tlc-show/
- 14. Texas Story (Cont) The original test was deemed a false positive. After more tests were done Hantavirus was ruled out. Health officials said disrupting the old, dusty mounds of clutter inside the home could have easily released the virus. What the women is still ill with is yet to be Photo by: Isaac Kasamania/ AFP/GettyImages determined. http://mix965houston.cbslocal.com/2012/09/11/health-officials-wrongly-diagnose-woman- with-hantavirus/
- 15. Additional Information One theory is that tourists and all their food are feeding a population boom of infected mice. After 20 years in the U.S. there is still no cure. (CBS News) YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - There has been an outbreak of hantavirus, a deadly disease spread by rodents. More than 22,000 people who visited Yosemite National Park since June have now been warned they should get tested. There have been eight confirmed cases and three people have died. One case of hantavirus is rare; eight cases in one location is unprecedented. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57510794/yosemite-park-reacts-to-hantavirus-cases/
- 16. What Researchers Are Doing Researchers found the source. Knowing rodents carried hantavirus, they trapped hundreds of small mammals and found the virus in nearly one-third of the deer mice, according to the CDC. Before year's end, scientists isolated the specific type of hantavirus that caused the Four Corners cases and grew it in a laboratory. The CDC took tissue samples from the survivors of the virus and the those who died, scientists then tested for antibodies against viruses. Which in the end they found a match. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hantavirus-mystery-20120911,0,2952749.story
- 17. Works Cited Allposters.com Bauman, Robert Microbiology with Disease by bodies system 3rd edition. http://www.businessinsider.com/yosemites-hantavirus-outbreak-kills-a-third-camper-2012-9 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57510794/yosemite-park-reacts-to-hantavirus-cases/ http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57509723-10391704/hantavirus-found-in-texas-hoarders-home- featured-on-tlc-show/ http://www.cdc.gov/rodents/resources/images.html http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hantavirus-mystery-20120911,0,2952749.story http://mix965houston.cbslocal.com/2012/09/11/health-officials-wrongly-diagnose-woman-with- hantavirus/ Phsource.us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUimXBxOn90&feature=youtu.be