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Carried by the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) this strain of virus caused in 1993 a serious outbreak of respiratory illness. Fever, muscular aching, and cough–all resembling flu symptoms–are followed by abrupt onset of severe respiratory distress. Patients had seemed otherwise healthy. Many (56%) of the victims died in initial outbreak, located in the southwestern
United States. Treatment was primarily supportive, with stabilization of serious cases in hospital intensive care.

To prevent Hantavirus exposure, avoid occupational or leisure activities that bring individuals into contact with infected rodents, their excreta or bites. This requires caution in harvesting field crops, sleeping in vacant cabins, cleaning barns, or living in dwellings with indoor rodent populations. Prevention is the best approach to cure.

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