Centers for Disease Control: Tracking a Mystery: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Handout

Publisher

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Handout

Centers for Disease Control: Tracking a Mystery: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site offers a detailed account of the 1993 outbreak in the western US that lead to discovery of a new disease linked to "a previously unknown type of hantavirus." Many related pages with information on how HPS is transmitted, who's at risk of getting it, how to prevent it, and more.

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Concepts

lungs, mice, rats, rodents, symptoms

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deer mouse, hantavirus, outbreak, prevention, technical information, transmitted, treatment, virus, cdc, center for disease control, disease, hanta, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, hps, muerto canyon virus, risk, sin nombre virus, snv

Classroom Considerations

Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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