So I don't know how to take precautions for it. Hanta virus sickened 44 people in 14 states since last year. Experts say at least 60 people have died from the virus since 1980. Health workers focused on Hanta after the virus was identified as the culprit in the mystery deaths of 11 people on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico and Arizona in 1993. Before that, Hanta virus was well known as a killer outside the United States but undocumented inside the United States.
Researchers say avoid deer mice.
But for anyone who spends any time out of doors, that would be difficult because deer mice live just about everywhere in the country, except the southeast. Richard Boom had no idea what killed him. Scary, very scary. Could have been any of us. Keep food in mouse-proof containers.