Abstract
To the Editor. —The recognition ofHantavirusas a "new" zoonosis threat in North America poses challenges to infectious disease experts, epidemiologists, laboratory personnel, and practitioners alike. Scientific publications emanating from a number of disciplines, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),1-3the Wilderness Medical Society,4and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA),5have addressed issues of surveillance, applied research, prevention, clinical presentation, and control. In addition, presentations of the CDC have shed new light on an infectious disease that is well known on other continents, yet was unrecognized in the United States until 1993 when a cluster of precipitous deaths in New Mexico, including those of two prominent athletes, prompted a major epidemiologic investigation. An enhanced awareness of the potential value of ecological vector control has still to be incorporated into the dialogue. Although the deer mouse,Peromyscus maniculatus, has been determined to be
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