Deer mice being killed in Yosemite because of hantavirus

[Emily]

Weather and poor food handling in campgrounds is suspected as causing an unusual increase in deer mice numbers.

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Deer mice being killed in Yosemite because of hantavirus outbreak
Posted by admin in News on September 15th, 2012 | 5 responses

By Reuters

Yosemite National Park has begun trapping and killing deer mice whose growing numbers may have helped create the conditions that led to a hantavirus outbreak that has infected eight park visitors, killing three, public health officials said on Tuesday...

However, studies have indicated that host abundance has nothing to do with hantavirus prevalance. Overall mammalian species diversity reduction was linked to hantavirus prevalence.

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