Word: hantaviruses
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Within a few weeks after the first cases appeared, scientists suspected that the culprit was a variety of hantavirus, closely related to pathogens already known to exist in Europe and Asia. Researchers then established that the virus was carried by wild deer mice, and residents of the Southwest and West began taking special precautions to minimize their contact with the rodents. Finally, just over a week ago, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the Army Medical Research Institute at Fort Detrick, Maryland, reported that both institutions had independently isolated the virus and grown it under laboratory...
...Hantavirus, the mysterious and lethal disease carried by rodents, has so far afflicted 42 people in the U.S., killing 26 of them. Now scientists are discovering new variants of the disease among different species of rodents living in Europe, raising concern that fresh outbreaks may occur...