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Hantavirus Disease

The Hantavirus disease were not recognized until the 1950’s and then people thought that the disease could only effect Asia, where the virus caused “Hantaan River disease”. In 1993 a series of sudden deaths among young and apparently healthy American’s in the West led people thinking that it could happen in the U.S. Hantavirus are so recently recognized that they have no common name.

Hantavirus are named for the Hanaan River in Korea, near which the virus was found to be the cause of deadly hemorrhagic fever. In the American version, which has killed more than half the people known to have been infected. In Asia the virus primarily infected rodents but als...

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