All Entries Tagged With: "Hantavirus"
Avoid Hantavirus: Practice Prevention and Year-Round Rodent Control
As spring cleaning gets underway, the state health department reminds Coloradans to take steps to avoid hantavirus, a rare but potentially fatal respiratory disease from a virus carried by deer mice. People are most likely to get hantavirus by breathing in dirt and dust contaminated with deer mouse urine, droppings or saliva. More people […]
Barbara Crimond | May 01, 2018 | Comments 0
Prevention, Rodent Control are Keys to Preventing Hantavirus
State health officials today reminded Coloradans to take steps to avoid hantavirus. There has been one confirmed case of the disease in the state this year, and the patient is recovering. Hantavirus is a rare, but serious and potentially fatal respiratory disease primarily carried by deer mice. People become infected by breathing in dirt and […]
Barbara Crimond | May 05, 2017 | Comments 0
