PALMDALE, Calif. — Los Angeles County health officials are blaming two recent California fatalities, including the death of an Antelope Valley teenager on hantavirus, a disease that can be spread by rodents.
According to the Los Angeles Daily News, county public health officials confirmed last week that a teenage boy who died Aug. 6 had been infected with hantavirus, which in the Western United States is spread by deer mice.
The newspaper reported that officials are still investigating how the boy became infected, because he had been outside Los Angeles County before becoming ill. A 52-year-old Los Angeles County man died in July from hantavirus after staying in a trailer park in Mono County, where hantavirus is known to exist, according to the newspaper.
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Source: Los Angeles Daily News