Hantavirus

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microscope, one could see the round microbes that were stacked in rows along the epithelial lining of the lungs (CDC website 6). Each infection still involved mild kidney infections. The same type of rodent always carried the virus, and people came in contact with the microbes through skin exposure or inhalation of infected animal feces or urine. Research continued on this virus and in 1981, it was first cultured in human cells.
Many people were worried that since the virus was so prevalent in Korea that it possibly could be spread easily from boat to new land through trade. When rats were tested in various harbors throughout the United States, the Seoul virus, a form of , was found. In 1982, a study in Baltimore tested local rats and found that every rat over the age of two had the virus in their system (Garrett 539). Then individuals from two STD clinical-hospitals were tested and four cases of the Korean were found. The researchers took it one step further by testing ...

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failure or pulmonary edema. By May 14th, there was a list of five healthy people who had died from this disease. When the lab work returned it showed no signs of plague bacteria in the victim's blood. Worried, the head scientist pushed people to look through the medical records of all the recent unexplained respiratory deaths. The scientists determined that a disease known as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was infecting these people. Normally, this infected the elderly and burn victims, but for the five individuals in this area there was no connection.
When searching for a possible chemical that might cause these symptoms, Cheek came across something known as ...

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