TX: Hantavirus case near Houston

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Source: http://www.kcentv.com/story/19491777/new-virus-moves-to-texas


Hantavirus Emerges in Texas
Posted: Sep 08, 2012 4:56 PM EDT Updated: Sep 08, 2012 5:42 PM EDT


(KCEN) -- Another deadly virus is found in an area near Houston.

A woman working as part of a cleanup crew for a reality series caught the disease during filming.

The woman contracted the hantavirus while cleaning a home in The Woodlands for the TV show Hoarding: Buried Alive...

 

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Re: TX: Hantavirus case near Houston

Hantavirus scare puts ?Hoarding? home in lockdown

Saturday, September 8, 2012

A home in The Woodlands remained under quarantine Saturday as health officials wait for test results to confirm the presence of the deadly rodent-borne hantavirus.

Officials took the unusual step of closing the house on a small cul-de-sac in the 11000 block of Slash Pine Drive after a woman who had been helping clean the home for the TLC television show ?Hoarding: Buried Alive? developed a respiratory illness, said Dr. Mark Escott, of Montgomery County?s deputy local health authority.

The female patient was treated at a hospital in Montgomery County, but specifics of her condition can?t be released, Escott said.

Montgomery County health officials plan to drive on Sunday to Austin with another sample from the house to test at a state laboratory. ?We?re expecting that result will be positive,? Escott said of the report, which should be available late Monday afternoon.

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