Yosemite closes part of its park due to hantavirus - what animals are you most wary of?
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This post is a kind of fusion of stories, but on the news that the fine Yosemite park has been forced to close part of a popular campground area because of a hantavirus outbreak (which is a a deadly r
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Yosemite closes part of its park due to hantavirus - what animals are you most wary of?
posted at 30/8/2012 12:27 PM BST
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This post is a kind of fusion of stories, but on the news that the fine Yosemite park has been forced to close part of a popular campground area because of a hantavirus outbreak (which is a a deadly rodent-borne lung disease) that has killed two visitors to the park, with officials fearing that more cases will appear soon. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/30/us-usa-california-hantavirus-idUKBRE87T00Q20120830 And related to this story Slate have an article on animals that can make you sick: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2012/08/hantavirus_in_yosemite_what_animals_cause_the_most_disease_.html What animals are you most wary/suspicious of? Or to copy the line from Slate: What animals cause the most human disease? |
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posted at 30/8/2012 12:46 PM BST
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Horses (bitten when I was about 4 or 5) and wasps (aka the skinheads of the insect world - sat on one when again I was 4 or 5 and got badly stung bottom - never recovered from the psychological stress of that!) |
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posted at 30/8/2012 1:05 PM BST
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In Queensland, flying foxes as they carry Hendra virus and Lyssavirus and their shit is diabolical on duco. It'd be easier to get superglue off. Just leave it on your car in the sun all day and you'll be sorry. |
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One of the ODPs (Operating Dept. Practitioners - anaesthetist's right arm) I work with has just been on honeymoon to Yosemite. And she's got a cold. I told him to go and get checked - hope they do. As to the animal vector, the hanatvirus sites say "rodent", so, rats. No! " wild mice, particularly deer mice" and as usual with rodents you don't need a to be bitten, droppings, urine and dust from them will infect. Wash your hands! I don't think I'm afraid of any animal that isn't likely to attack me, but I thoroughly respect anything large or with teeth. One of our cats regularly does, from ambush, but she's not big enough to count. I was chased by wasps down a beach as a child; they were after the orange flavoured gob stopper I was sucking, so my mother told me to swim and wash my mouth and face in the sea. It worked, but then we had to bury the half sucked gob stopper in the sand as it was attracting all the wasps for miles. John |
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