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The mysterious illness that killed two young Navajos in the spring of 1993—and the deaths that followed— captured the nation’s attention like no other outbreak since Legionnaire’s disease in 1976. The victims, Merrill Bahe, 20, and his fiancee, Florena Woody, 21, were young and had no medical history that might explain why they had become ill. The doctors who treated them had never seen anything like it.
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Walters, M.J. (2014). A Spring to Die For: Hantavirus. In: Seven Modern Plagues. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-466-6_5
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