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Jerry Dodrill
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Sebastopol
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 27, 2012 - 10:27pm PT
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This is serious stuff. Another reason to avoid the ditch.
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK - The recent diagnosis of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in two Californians, one of whom died, has prompted Yosemite National Park to scale up its public health response and outreach. The National Park Service Office of Public Health learned over the weekend of a confirmed third case, which resulted in a fatality, and probable fourth case, of hantavirus in individuals who visited Yosemite National Park in June of this year. An outreach effort is currently underway by the park concessioner to contact visitors who stayed in "Signature Tent Cabins" at Curry Village from mid-June through the end of August. These individuals are being informed of the recent cases and are being advised to seek immediate medical attention if they exhibit any symptoms of hantavirus.
http://www.nps.gov/yose/parknews/hanta_8-27-12.htm
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briham89
Big Wall climber
los gatos. ca
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Aug 27, 2012 - 11:18pm PT
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beat me to it Jerry. (edit: and apparently i missed it last week too) Just about to post. Scary stuff.....I'm glad I've never paid to sleep in one of those expensive tents
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dipper
climber
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Aug 27, 2012 - 11:19pm PT
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SIGnature tents!
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2012 - 11:19pm PT
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Sorry I missed it Peter. Worth bringing up again though!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Aug 27, 2012 - 11:25pm PT
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The press release, dated today, is an update to the original. It indicates they are allegedly doing more to protect public health.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Aug 27, 2012 - 11:28pm PT
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Yikes, who knows what lurks in the wood of C4's picnic tables as well !!!
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Aug 27, 2012 - 11:41pm PT
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I was thinking about bringing my gf to Facelift and upgrading to a tent cabin. UP is looking like a safer option
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jstan
climber
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Aug 27, 2012 - 11:56pm PT
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You may remember a thread on poison oak where people were exposing themselves to it to gain resistance. Well I have done much the same with the hanta virus. I caught a couple dozen pack rats here in JT and am keeping them in the house.
I have not caught anything yet so it must be working.
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fsck
climber
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Aug 28, 2012 - 02:21am PT
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ho man, next thing you know big rocks are going to peel off the cliffs and strafe the cabins.
oh wait..
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 28, 2012 - 04:48am PT
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hey there say, ... thanks for the share, jerry...
i missed the earlier share, as well... :O
will pass this to a few folks i know...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 28, 2012 - 10:43am PT
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My neighbors just returned from a two day stay in Kosovo West. So far no symptoms.
They did report that people are still going into the water above the bridge
on the Mist Trail.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Aug 28, 2012 - 11:27am PT
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All of the Yosemite dwellings and campgrounds are absolute sh1tholes of humanity. I've gotten sick or ended up with some fungus, bug or other infection on the majority of extended stays I've had there. I'd recommend lots of handwashing and Emergen-C, for starters.
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Mr_T
Trad climber
Northern California
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Aug 28, 2012 - 12:35pm PT
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YER
GONNA
DIE
FER SURE!!!!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 28, 2012 - 12:43pm PT
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One of jstan's packrats:
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Aug 28, 2012 - 01:20pm PT
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rodents in yosemite are a real problem, and if you think it's only in camp curry, stay in camp 4, where the aggressive ground squirrels will grab your bag of chips if you turn your back. i half-jokingly suggested the park service ought to be promoting the breeding interests of the northern harrier instead of the peregrine falcon.
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Fluoride
Trad climber
West Los Angeles, CA
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Aug 28, 2012 - 01:52pm PT
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It's getting worse! Two dead and everyone who stayed in the tent cabins this summer are being warned they're at risk.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Yosemite officials told 1,700 past visitors on Tuesday they may have been exposed to a rodent-borne disease already blamed for the deaths of two people who stayed at the park.
The email alerts involved hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, which can be carried in the urine, saliva and feces of infected deer mice.
All of the at-risk visitors had stayed in the "Signature Tent Cabins" in Yosemite National Park's Curry Village.
Yosemite officials warned those who stayed there from mid-June through the end of August to beware of any symptoms of hantavirus, which can include fever, aches, dizziness and chills.
Park officials told people to seek medical help immediately for such symptoms. There is no specific treatment for the respiratory illness.
Two other people were infected and were expected to survive.
Federal epidemiologists learned over the weekend of the second fatality.
Earlier this month a man from Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay area died, and a woman from Southern California was sickened after staying in infected tent cabins in Curry Village, a family friendly area with the park's lowest-cost accommodations.
The four people known so far to have contracted the illness stayed around the same time in June. Federal health officials say symptoms can develop up to six weeks after exposure.
Of the 587 documented U.S. cases since the virus was identified in 1993, about one-third proved fatal.
Thousands of people visit the park every month, so it would be impossible to track everyone who had set foot in Curry Village, officials said.
Curry Village is located at the base of the 3,000-foot promontory Glacier Point.
Park spokesman Scott Gediman said the Delaware North Co., which runs the park's lodging facilities, is working to shore up cabins to protect park-goers.
"There are rodents and some are infected and that's what happens," Gediman said. "This is a wilderness setting. It has nothing to do with the cleanliness of the cabins."
This year's deaths mark the first such fatalities in park visitors, although two others were stricken in a more remote area in 2000 and 2010, officials said.
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dipper
climber
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Aug 28, 2012 - 02:10pm PT
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Gediman said. "This is a wilderness setting. It has nothing to do with the cleanliness of the cabins."
Yosemite Valley a wilderness setting? yeah right.
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Fluoride
Trad climber
West Los Angeles, CA
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Aug 28, 2012 - 02:15pm PT
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Yosemite....
Yer
Gonna
Die!!!!
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 28, 2012 - 02:17pm PT
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We owned a house in Yosemite West for about 30 years. During that time, there were always issues with mice, and my wife always insisted on what seemed at the time like an obsessive level of cleaning after the critters. She feels vindicated now.
John
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