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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Recently a young gal that was working part time at the local ghetto-pack station contracted Hanta and became ill...She survived...My ER doctor buddy intubated this chalfant local who was suffocating from flu-like symptoms...Her last words were I can't breath....Years later her body was exhumed and tested revealing the Hanta Virus...Timid...don't forget your hazmat suit...RJ
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corniss chopper
climber
breaking the speed of gravity
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Everything is just fine! Have fun.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Working here at Tioga Pass Resort the past 3 years thought much about this problem.
Tobia,
#1 question.....why do some mice have hanta, how do they contract it and why do the majority of the mouse population not have it?
Trained from youth to kill mice....not catch and release. Mice and other small rodents carry disease period. They are at the end of the food chain and multiply so others may exist.
Rich Sims, Howdy! "Kids who clean cabins....." So now I'm a kiddo, thanks Dude!!!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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We built a crude shooting deck at a favorite range site.
A bunch of people camped there, apparently without shovels.
After a while a goddamn Merriam's pack-rat built a midden underneath the deck constructed, in part, of every desiccated dog and human turd collected from a quarter mile radius.
Damn rodents are good for only one thing.
Reptile food!
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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I just had a porcupine chew through wooden shutters because they hadn't been covered in tin yet so I'm not too fond of them either!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Ron, I don't resemble that remark in the least.
You are right. They are vermin.
Rodents Is Pests!
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brat
climber
El Portal
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How many people a year die from diseases they have contracted from other HUMANS?
Feed HUMANS to the snakes.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Snakes or rodents. That's our choice?
No wonder this country is in trouble!
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Just contracted a substantial school gig from a school that is cancelling their YI program (staying at Curry Village). I am not happy to benefit from another programs loss, especially a loss connected to tragedy. Though I am glad that those these particular 8th graders still get to do a quality Sierra Program. Better check in and make sure the old Sierra Club Lodge is on top of rodent prevention as well!
Peter
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sb4
climber
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A. Which are the "Signature Cabins" -- news reports never say. How about a map showing????
B. Why only mice supposedly have it? Could it spread to squirrels? That would make it personal...
C. Anywhere else? Campgrounds? Curry dining hall? How do they test?
A little more analysis would be useful on the part of the "authorities".
Climb on...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I'm pretty sure I saw the Four Horsemen in the Mountain Room...
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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The rodent infestation at Curry Village, and indeed all campgrounds, eating facilities, and accommodations in the Valley, must go back more than a century. I bet that the Curry Company, now DNC, has always had numbers of staff just for rodent control.
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Alexey
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Statistics for YNP:
Park visitors: 4,098,648 in 2011; 4 million in 2010; 3.88 million in 2009; 3.6 million in 2008; 3.6 million in 2007; 3.4 million in 2006; and 3.4 million in 2005 (Visitation to the park peaked in 1996 with 4,190,557 visitors.)
So if few [6?] died in last 6 mounts period - it is about one visitor out of 330 thousand.
Not a big chance especially if you care about you foot and wash your hands. More people died on the road to reach YNP?
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Just read that one more person died from this outbreak.
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John Marts
Mountain climber
Edmonds, WA
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Is there a difference between the tents, and the Signature Tents? My wife and I tented there this summer, furthest southeast corner. Is that a Hanta Virus tent site? And, btw, there was a huge boulder/tree fall above the tent that night. Rangers couldn't find any signs at the time.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Here's the whole article from the LA Times.............
Two more cases of hantavirus have been linked to Yosemite National Park, including one that resulted in the death of a West Virginia resident, officials announced Thursday.
Three people have now died of the rare, rodent-borne disease after visiting the park this summer; five others have been sickened.
Yosemite officials announced the two additional cases; the death was confirmed by the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department in West Virginia, which said that a Kanawha County resident who visited the park "in recent months" died of the disease.
Yosemite officials previously traced the cases to the "signature tent cabins" in the park's popular Curry Village campground, saying a design flaw allowed mice to get inside the walls of the insulated cabins. But Thursday, park officials said that although seven of the cases had been linked to the cabins, one was believed to have originated in the High Sierra Camps, a different area of the park.
Public health agencies across the U.S. have been warned about the outbreak, and alerts were issued internationally this week. The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initially said 10,000 people who stayed in the signature tent cabins between June 10 and Aug. 24 were at risk; that number could rise now that a case originated outside Curry Village.
Spread through urine, droppings or saliva of infected rodents, hantavirus takes one to six weeks before causing symptoms in humans, officials said. The disease is generally transmitted when people come in contact with an enclosed area that has been infested by mice.
The disease is rare — 587 cases were diagnosed nationwide from 1993 and 2011, of which about one-third were fatal, according to the CDC.
But the cases at Yosemite are perhaps even more unusual. Park officials and public health authorities said they had not heard of more than one case of the disease in the same location within a year.
News of the outbreak rattled recent visitors. Rangers have fielded thousands of calls from concerned travelers, and a spokeswoman with the concessionaire that handles park lodging said there was a 20% cancellation rate on the usually sold-out Labor Day weekend
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Texplorer
Trad climber
Sacramento
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Hanta Virus made labor day awe. . . .
wait for it. . . . . .
. . . .. some
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all...
very sad to hear, too, the newest death... :(
i was wondering, is there some reason why this year is worse?
no cleaning... more rodents due to 'changes in nature'...
does anyone have more info... :(
hope other parks can take foresight from this and help
others for the future... :(
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