Dear RM Agents and Readers,

The mom and son in this article were my relatives and it was in Carbon County, Utah. It was a young man that was due to be wed and they had purchased a modular home that was sitting on a lot (in a field). There were a great deal of mouse droppings; it was very sad. In fact they noted that another member of my family had died at the time but it wasn't true. 2 not 3 passed from this event. I'm still looking for an on line story.

Things I referenced when I became ill with Morgellons (really my head was spinning)Rhogam shot with blood transfusion, second child of Rh negative, hand pushing a dead rodent (squirrel or prairie dog)really stupid on my part. A Russian satellite went over the area as well about about 4 months before symptoms began
very close and sounded like an incoming rocket.

I also had a cat at the time after my second child was born.

A sewage plant that turned florescent red and smelled like an outhouse in July a 1/4 of a mile from my home. Also a military person that returned from Dugway Proving Ground in Tooele ill with Hanta Virus who lived 1/4 mile from myself who was very ill and died. This led to the military coming into my town and a meeting of notable folks that resulted in no problem that the sewage plant turned red or that the guy died, nothing to do with you, go back to sleep.
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https://web.stanford.edu/~siegelr/uda.html

The History of the Southwest Outbreak

In May 1993, a cluster of patients in western New Mexico and eastern Arizona entered hospitals and clinics with a fatal acute respiratory illness. They presented with a previously unidentified syndrome of pulmonary edema, fever, elevated WBC count and low oxygen saturation ( 17). On May 14 the NMDOH was notified of a couple in the same household, a 21-year old woman and 19-year old man, who had died within 5 days of each other of acute respiratory failure after an abrupt onset of fever, myalgias, headache and cough (14). Termed "The Four Corner's Disease" because of its appearance around the Four Corners area where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado meet in the southwestern United States, the bizarre disease was identified in 24 case-patients by June 7, 1993. The onset began in December 1992, though 14 had symptom onset in May. The median age was 34; fourteen case-patients were Native American, nine were white and one was Hispanic. Twelve of the first 24 cases (50%) died (4).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quickly became involved in investigating the cause of these cases. Their lab's analysis of clinical and autopsy specimens found high titers of antibodies to hantaviruses. Six of the nice initial case-patients' serum IgG and IgM antibodies cross-reacted with Puumala, Prospect Hill and Seoul hantaviruses, suggesting a previously unknown virus (5). The CDC soon isolated the causative agent from deer mice lung tissue and visualized it by electron microscopy (15). RNA nucleotide sequence studies of virus glycoproteins and nucleocapsid of the M and S segments amplified with PCR from case-patients identified a new hantavirus. The virus was closely related to Prospect Hill and Puumala viruses but not a recombinant genetic shift of the three segments of RNA as suspected (16). During the week of June 6 rodents, known to be carriers of hantavirus, were collected from peridomestic settings of several case-patients. Of the 42 tested, 12 (29%) were positive of which all were deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus (5). Hantavirus sequences amplified in 6 of the Ab positive mice were found to be closely related to sequences from 3 human cases, providing a direct genetic link between the rodents and the infected humans (6). By testing serum samples of people from the outbreak area in 1991 and 1992 for hantavirus Ab, seroprevalence was found to be 1% (3 /270) which further supported an etiological role for hantavirus as the causal infectious agent in the outbreak (5). By July cases were identified outside of the outbreak area in Nevada and Texas (7). In August two cases were confirmed in California and one Louisiana who had a hantavirus distinct from the four-corners virus (8) By December 1994, 108 cases of HPS from 21 states were confirmed, 56% of which were from the four corners area (20).

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Many Blessings,
CrysalRiver