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Serious Disease Can Be Prevented with Simple Precautions
(Las Cruces) -- Summer is quickly approaching, which means it is once again time for the New Mexico Department of Health to remind people to take precautions against two serious, but easily prevented diseases: plague and Hantavirus.
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a severe respiratory illness that can be deadly. People can become infected and develop the disease from Hantavirus when they breathe in aerosolized virus particles that have been transmitted by infected rodents through urine, droppings or saliva. The deer mouse is the main reservoir for the strain of Hantavirus that occurs in New Mexico, Sin Nombre virus.
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