Hantavirus -- United States
The exact hantaviral pathogen, causing acute (apparently non-cardiogenic) pulmonary edema and pericarditis in this woman is presumed being Sin Nombre virus (SNV), but was not specified in the Fox 8 article. In the same article, hantaviral infections were called "an extremely rare and often fatal disease", which might perhaps apply to so-called hantavirus cardio-pulmonary syndrome (HCPS) cases, with a fatality rate of now about 35 %, and mainly caused by autochthonous American hantaviruses that
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7927253&promed&0
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