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Second death caused by Yosemite Hantavirus

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    17-hundred visitors warned of possible exposure

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Curry village in Yosemite National Park is a popular spot but -- -- Seve sent out emails to 17100 visitors who stayed at the camps signature tent cabins from mid June through August.

Warning they may have been exposed to -- a virus the warning points out the diseases flu like symptoms can take up to six weeks to show.

For campers that come -- -- the disease with one early fatality today's warning went out after a second person died.

If someone has these symptoms or has been in Yosemite and feels the symptoms they should definitely go to.

A physician immediately.

Some campers say they decided not to rent a cabin here after hearing about the outbreak we did not -- one.

Very close -- our property equipment the way just because we didn't want to have to really.

-- deal with that but -- it is very scary.

Way to say the campers probably got -- -- virus from saliva urine or feces of infected deer mice it cannot be passed from human to human.

Rangers -- the park has thoroughly cleaned up curry village Isabel Rodriguez is -- -- this week.

Kinda scary.

Is something and then you hope you -- -- against.

But it's out there starting today arriving visitors were giving information -- on hanta virus one person familiar with the disease offers simple advice.

-- from New Mexico.

We've had a controversy here in Mexico also and really just be clean and -- -- some places because post would be.

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