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In May 1993, a cluster of cases of a lethal disease among healthy young people brought the attention of the world to the southwestern deserts. A previously unknown disease was killing up to 80% of the people it infected.The reaction in the area and across the nation mixed fear, lack of information, and the struggles of doctors to save the victims of an unknown killer with hard science and the age old rhythmns of the desert. What came out was the story of a virus that had been killing since man arrived in the American continents, Hantavirus, with deadly relatives across the Americas and acr

Hantavirus infections. --- Hantaviruses. --- Mice as carriers of disease. --- Hantavirus infections --- Mice as carriers of disease --- Epidemics --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Communicable diseases --- Rodents as carriers of disease --- Hantavirus diseases --- Virus diseases --- Hantavirus --- Bunyaviruses --- Outbreaks --- Pandemics --- HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS --- RODENTIA --- RODENT CONTROL --- COMMUNICABLE DISEASES --- HANTAVIRUS --- PREVENTION AND CONTROL