Yosemite hantavirus warning expands to 39 countries
LOS ANGELES (MCT) — U.S. health officials have notified 39 other countries whose citizens may be at risk for hantavirus after recently traveling to Yosemite National Park, where a deadly outbreak of rodent-borne disease has been traced.
Dr. David Wong, an epidemiologist with the National Park Service’s Office of Public Health, told the Los Angeles Times that health officials believe 2,000 to 2,500 people from outside the United States possibly have been exposed to the disease.
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