Pecos National Historical Park Mammal Survey Data Help Solve Hantavirus Mystery
Parmenter RR. 1995. Pecos National Historical Park Mammal Survey Data Help Solve Hantavirus Mystery. Park Science. 1995(Spring):12-13
This article describes how field data from a survey of mammals at Pecos National Historical Park during the hantavirus outbreak of 1993 provided epidemiologists with insights into the dynamics of the disease in relation to deer mouse populations and the El Nino climate phenomenon.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Parmenter, Robert
- Units
- PECO
- Keywords
- deer mouse, El Nino, epidemiology, Peromyscus maniculatus, rodent, Sin Nombre Hantavirus, zoonotic disease