Post by house on Jul 7, 2017 14:15:22 GMT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five people have been infected with the rare rodent Hanta virus transmitted by rodents in the state since February, three of them dead, in the worst virus attack in at least 18 years, state health officials said.
Deaths were the highest death toll of the Hanta pneumoniae syndrome in Washington state in one year since the discovery of the disease in the Four Corners area in the southwestern US in 1993.
The white mouse disease is transmitted either by exposure to urine, excrement, saliva, or by nesting infected mice or by inhaling contaminated dust.
The disease was caused by men and women between the ages of 20 and 50 in four provinces of the state, said David Johnson, a spokesman for the Health Department in Washington state.
(Prepared by Mohammed al-Yamani for the Arabic publication - Edit Amal Abu al-Saud)
Deaths were the highest death toll of the Hanta pneumoniae syndrome in Washington state in one year since the discovery of the disease in the Four Corners area in the southwestern US in 1993.
The white mouse disease is transmitted either by exposure to urine, excrement, saliva, or by nesting infected mice or by inhaling contaminated dust.
The disease was caused by men and women between the ages of 20 and 50 in four provinces of the state, said David Johnson, a spokesman for the Health Department in Washington state.
(Prepared by Mohammed al-Yamani for the Arabic publication - Edit Amal Abu al-Saud)