So, you’re relying on a 13-year-old study done just one year after the virus was detected to give us your stats? And, you claim to be a professional? Something just doesn’t sound right here. Especially with all your claims about the plague and such... Granted, there may have at one time been millions of prairie dogs, but even in Colorado just outside Denver there are vast fields FULL of them — again, this is in urban areas, I’m not even talking about rural areas where I’m sure there are tons more... AND, they do warn residents continuously about the threat of bubonic plague. I couldn’t hardly believe it was real when I first moved to Colorado and heard the warnings - but, it’s real... If you really knew so much about this, I don’t think you’d be making the statements you are making...
CU student dies from hantavirus
Jason Lee Dinges, of Fairplay, died July 15 — less than a week after coming down with flu-like symptoms, according to his family. He was entering his fourth year at CU as an aerospace engineering student.
Dinges’ death was the fourth in the state this year from the disease spread by mouse droppings, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Two others — in Custer and Costilla counties — died from it within five days of Dinges’ death.
Since the state began tracking the virus in 1993, 61 cases have been diagnosed. Twenty-three of those people died.
Vicky Dinges said state health officials told her that dying of hantavirus is like being struck by lightning.
“He was a good kid,” Vicky Dinges said. “We loved him. We loved him dearly.”
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2007/jul/24/cu-student-dies-from-hantavirus/