Update: outbreak of hantavirus infection--southwestern United States, 1993.

  • 25 June 1993
    • journal article
    • Vol. 42  (24) , 477-9
Abstract
Since May 1993, the New Mexico Department of Health, the Arizona Department of Health, the Colorado Department of Health, the Utah Department of Health, the Indian Health Service, and CDC, with the assistance of the Navajo Nation Division of Health, have been investigating an outbreak of illness associated with hantavirus infection. This report updates information regarding the relation between illness and infection with a previously unrecognized hantavirus.