Distribution of Hanta virus isn’t too common along the eastern seaboard, though it does occur. Thoughts on this range from previous travel to buying products made in the southwestern US and transported.
Check the CDC on this:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/noframes/casemap.htm
-xtn :boy
airferret
Strange but I thought I’d get more then a couple cases of dysentary on the trail, especially after those near overflowing toilets in some of the Pennsylvania and NY huts. But the only time I got sick was when I went into a town in Connecticut and had chicken for lunch. Thankfully the pouring rain the next day persuaded me to take a zero so when the onslaught came I was in my hotel room near a toilet.
I later found out their was some kind of chicken rleated salmonella outbreak.
jalan
I never heard of the Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome(HPS) until this post. I went to the site airferret suggested. It is a deadly disease transmitted by infected rodents through urine, droppings, or saliva. Humans can contract the disease when they breathe in aerosolized virus. I’m surprised more people don’t get sick from shelters. We have rats with HPS, dirty floors, dirty toilets, GORB bags, shelter registers and the dreaded register pen/pencil. Of course, we could fall off the couch while watching television. Have a Healthy Hike.
Bilko