Deer mice being culled in Yosemite over hantavirus outbreak - Vitals
Yosemite officials trap, kill mice after hantavirus outbreak
Mike Groll / AP, file
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female deer mouse has a monitor attached to her left ear at the
Adirondack Ecological Center in Newcomb, N.Y. Yosemite National Park is
trapping and killing the deer mice, which can carry the deadly
hantavirus, after an outbreak there over the summer.
Yosemite officials in recent weeks have warned 22,000 people who stayed in the park in California over the summer that they may have been exposed to the rodent-borne lung disease, which kills over a third of those infected.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also sounded a worldwide alert, saying visitors to the park's popular Curry Village lodging area between June and August may be at risk. Park officials have closed nearly 100 tent cabins in Curry Village infested with deer mice, which carry the virus.
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