Colorado: One fatal case of hantavirus

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Archive Number 20100129.0316
Published Date 29-JAN-2010
Subject PRO/AH/EDR> Hantavirus update 2010 - Americas (03): USA (CO)


HANTAVIRUS UPDATE 2010 - AMERICAS (03): USA (COLORADO)
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Date: Thu 28 Jan 2010
Source: The Denver Post, The Pueblo Chieftain/Associated Press (AP)
report [edited]
<http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_14285686>


A virus carried by deer mice is being blamed for the death of an
Alamosa County person. The Alamosa County Health Department says [a]
hantavirus caused the death of a county resident. No details have
been given about the victim or when the person died.

Hantavirus[es] [cause] a rare disease; [the virus is] carried by deer
mice and passed to humans through dust from droppings. People can
also get [a] hantavirus [infection] by handling dead mice.

Alamosa County's last hantavirus death was in the 2007, when a
28-year-old woman died.

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[The CDC MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2009 58(50); 1409-12
<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5850a3.htm?s_cid=mm5850a3_e>
(cited in ProMED archive no. 20091223.4323) reported 2 fatal cases of
hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in children in Colorado in 2009 caused
by Sin Nombre hantavirus. The Alamosa County, Colorado case reported
above does not indicate the hantavirus involved, but Sin Nombre virus
is the most likely pathogen.

A photograph of a deer mouse (_Peromyscus maniculatus_), the main
reservoir rodent host of Sin Nombre virus, is available at
<http://www.discoverlife.org/IM/I_RB/0000/320/Peromyscus_maniculatus,I_RB26.jpg>.


Maps showing the location of the states in the western USA including
Colorado, can be accessed at
<http://www.sioux.com/images/US_MAP.gif>
and the HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map at
<http://healthmap.org/r/013z>.
For a map of counties showing the location of Alamosa County in
south-central Colorado see
<http://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/states/colorado/colorado-maps/colorado-county-map.jpg>.
- Mod.TY]

[see also:
2009
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Hantavirus update 2009 - Americas (12): USA, pediatric 20091223.4323
Hantavirus update 2009 - Americas (11): USA (CA) 20091214.4245
Hantavirus update 2009 - Americas (10): USA (NM) 20090918.3281
Hantavirus update 2009 - Americas (08): USA (NM, AZ) 20090708.2452
Hantavirus update 2009 - Americas (06): USA (NM) 20090511.1753
2008
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Hantavirus update 2008 - Americas (22): USA (NM), Chile ex Arg.: susp
20081206.3836
Hantavirus update 2008 - Americas (09): USA (CO) 20080609.1828
Hantavirus update 2008 - Americas (07): USA (CO) 20080512.1613
Hantavirus update 2008 - Americas (05): USA (CO) 20080310.0970
Hantavirus update 2008 - Americas (04): USA (NM) 20080308.0957
2007
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Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (14): USA (NM) 20071201.3871
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (13): USA (SD) 20071013.3361
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (12): USA (WA) 20070819.2704
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (11): USA (PA) 20070726.2412
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (10): USA (CO) 20070718.2308
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (07): USA (NM) 20070621.2007
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (09): USA (TX, CA), Canada (AB) 20070717.2298
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (08): USA (CO) 20070626.2056
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (07): USA (NM) 20070621.2007
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (06): USA (NM) 20070531.1756
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (05): USA (CO) 20070523.1656
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (04): USA (CO) 20070515.1549
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (03): USA (WV): susp. 20070327.1060
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (02): USA (MT) 20070205.0459
Hantavirus update 2007 - Americas (01): USA (Multistate) 20070128.0374]
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