2 hantavirus-related deaths confirmed in Utah (KSL, June 5 2012)

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2 hantavirus-related deaths confirmed in Utah



5 June 2012

The Utah Health Department confirms that two people in Utah have died from exposure to hantavirus.

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Link to official Utah Dept of Health news release: http://udohnews.blogspot.com/2012/06...s-in-utah.html

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Re: 2 hantavirus-related deaths confirmed in Utah (KSL, June 5 2012)

Utah health officials confirm 2 hantavirus deaths

By Michelle Rindels
Associated Press / June 6, 2012

Public health officials have linked two deaths in Utah to hantavirus in the past month, an unusually high rate for the rodent-borne disease that isn't always fatal.

The two victims -- one in Millard County and another in Salt Lake County -- had been exposed to rodents in the two to three weeks prior to their deaths, according to Utah Department of Health epidemiologist JoDee Baker.

"We get maybe one case a year," Baker said Tuesday. "It's unusual to see two fatalities so early in the summer."
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Privacy restrictions prevent Utah officials from releasing specific information about the two victims who died, although Baker said they were between 20 and 55 years of age...

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2012/06/06/utah_health_officials_confirm_2_hantavirus_deaths/