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  • Airman at Fort Bliss died of hantavirus

    02/28/2006 9:13:08 PM PST · by neverdem · 41 replies · 1,388+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Feb. 28, 2006 | NA
    Associated Press EL PASO — An airman who was training at Fort Bliss for deployment to Iraq died of a deadly virus linked to rodents, an Air Force official said today. Senior Airman Leonard Hankerson Jr., 24, a security forces patrolman, died Feb. 11 at William Beaumont Army Hospital in El Paso. He was assigned to a squadron at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Ariz. Autopsy results confirmed last week that Hankerson had hantavirus, said Lt. Col. John Paradis, a Luke Air Force Base spokesman. The disease is transmitted to humans when they inhale particles of dried urine, feces...