Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Major effort to stave off hantavirus at Yosemite National Park

Sisters Lauren Scott and Patrice Fambrini stood near the check-in desk of Curry Village, a quaint collection of tents and cabins in Yosemite National Park, and considered the merits of their lodgings.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Camper deaths, presence of plague darken summer at Yosemite

The deaths of two young campers killed when a tree branch fell on their tent and a campground closure because of plague has cast a pall over California's Yosemite National Park at the height of the summer tourist season.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

CDC: Yosemite hantavirus outbreak has killed 3, sickened 10

To date, 10 people have fallen ill - and three have died - in the hantavirus outbreak at Yosemite National Park's "signature" cabins in Curry Village, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

More Yosemite tourists infected with deadly virus

Six visitors to California's famous Yosemite National Park have now been infected with a rare rodent-born virus, two of whom have died, officials said Thursday, in an update on the outbreak.

HIV & AIDS

Viruses skip species by changing rapidly

While it may be that some Americans doubt we're related to chimps and other primates, viruses recognize the similarities in our cells.

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