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apparently undertaken because an Australian hiker became ill while hiking the Appalachian Trail in the summer of 1993. Although he became ill while in Pennsylvania, the incubation period for the disease caused the CDC to conclude he had been exposed while hiking in Virginia.
The State Health Department released information about the case last month. According to the Health Department, although it is rare, hantavirus infection is spread by wild rodents to humans. It is often deadly and caused a severe respiratory disease outbreak in the southwestern United States in 1993.
The hiker started his trip in Georgia and had become ill by the time he reached Pennsylvania. During a month-long hospitalization, he suffered lung, kidney, liver and pancrease complications. Testing conducted at that time was not conclusive. More specific tests, cotiducted by the CDC when he returned to the United States recently on additional specimens, confirmed the infection. The hiker has fully recovered.
Based on the most likely incubation period for the disease, officials have concluded that he probably acquired the infection in Virginia. He encountered rodents in a number of places on his trip. Investigators are focusing on sites where he may have spent time in rodent infested buildings. Rodents are being
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