Albuquerque Journal newspaper stories
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ABQjournal: Challenges Posed in Predicting Diseases
... carried by rodents feeding on lush new growth, or maybe even mosquitoes breeding in widespread puddles. The New Mexico totals? One case of hantavirus, four cases of plague and 33 of West Nile virus. "It was fairly low in just about everything," said Paul Ettestad, state public health veterinarian ...
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ABQjournal: Around New Mexico
... and buried in 10 separate holes about 12 to 18 inches deep, said Officer David Schragel. They were detonated Friday using delay shock timers. Hantavirus Kills Indian Woman WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - Navajo Nation health officials have confirmed that an American Indian woman contracted hantavirus ...
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ABQjournal: A Hunting Cat May Be Danger to You, Animals
... ever since. Whether housed inside or out, cats are natural predators. Your cats' healthy appetites just make them trophy hunters. Plague, Hantavirus, salmonella and rabies are potentially fatal human diseases that your cats can bring home from their hunting expeditions. "The No. 1 risk factor ...
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ABQjournal: Editor's Notebook
... , in today's dollars, would be $273. We peered over the shack's fence and wondered about the unseasonable cold and mice (and plague and hantavirus), and no amount, however small, seemed reasonable. Stepping back, and considering the ease of walking to the Plaza and Canyon Road, maybe $273 was a bargain ...
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ABQjournal: Time to Bug-Proof Home for Next Year
... was gone the next morning. I repeated the ant bait twice more to find it missing in the mornings. What should I do? Are there any health issues (Hantavirus, etc.) that I should be concerned about? - S.H., Albuquerque A: Pack rats don't carry Hantavirus, but they do have fleas and some of the ...
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ABQjournal: UNM Project to Help Scientists Tell if Vaccine Works
... . But what do you do when the disease isn't common at all? Suppose you developed a vaccine that you think might protect people from Hantavirus. It would be pretty risky to test it by vaccinating people and then deliberately exposing them to the often-deadly and untreatable virus just to see if ...
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ABQjournal: Software Gets a Real-Life Workout
... in seconds, Zelicoff says. SYRIS also allows veterinarians to input and monitor animal-borne symptoms as well - which could be key in containing Hantavirus or similar outbreaks. As long as the clinics using SYRIS are evenly dispersed throughout a region, only a small percentage of health care ...
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ABQjournal: 'Microbe' Does Battle With Disease Outbreaks
... acute respiratory syndrome) was identified and spread through several countries in 2003. A cluster of cases led to the first identification of Hantavirus in this country in 1993. And don't forget mad cow disease and the flourishing of Legionella, the bacterium that causes Legionnaire's disease, in air ...
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ABQjournal: Keep Spiders Outside
... on mice, but they feed on other rodents as well, including squirrels. Ticks are not a major parasite of mice, nor are mites. Deer mice can carry Hantavirus, but if you prohibit them from getting into sheds and other buildings, that shouldn't be a problem. I don't recommend any control unless ...
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ABQjournal: Keep Spiders Outside
... on mice, but they feed on other rodents as well, including squirrels. Ticks are not a major parasite of mice, nor are mites. Deer mice can carry Hantavirus, but if you prohibit them from getting into sheds and other buildings, that shouldn't be a problem. I don't recommend any control unless ...
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