In a recent study of the contiguous United States, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers found that the risk of disease from hantavirus is higher in drier, underdeveloped geographic areas with more socioeconomic vulnerability and increased numbers of unique rodent species. This is the first study to examine the combined effects of multiple variables—including socioeconomic, environmental, land use and rodent species—to determine which are most likely to predict the risk of people contracting hantavirus.
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