The mini-epidemic of hantavirus infection that erupted in the Southwest in 1993 was an ominous new variation of an old theme.
In other parts of the world, rodent-borne hantaviruses have been causing sporadic outbreaks of high
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Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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