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Satellite Imagery Could Detect Sin Nombre Virus Exposure Risk Areas

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BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 5 -- Satellite imagery could be used to determine areas at high risk for exposure to Sin Nombre virus (SNV), a rodent-born disease that causes the often fatal hantaviral pulmonary syndrome (HPS, or hantavirus) in humans, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and other institutions. The researchers say satellite imaging detects the distinct environmental conditions that may serve as a refuge for the disease-carrying deer mice. Higher populations of infected deer mice increase the risk of HPS to humans. Their findings are...Read full article

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