Hantavirus 2012

In the summer of 2012, exposure to hantavirus in Yosemite National Park created illness in over 20 people, and fatality in 3 of those people. A confirmed case of hantavirus was also found in Houston, Texas.

Hantavirus began causing illness in the United States in 1993. Since then, cases of hantavirus have been found to be extremely rare – only three or four hundred cases – but the serious and sometimes fatal respiratory complications this illness can cause are very dangerous. In the light o...