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Housekeeper Albert Gomez, sprays the floors of a tent cabin with a bleach mixture to prevent the possible spread of viruses hotel st jamesnew york in Curry Village at Yosemite National Park on Tuesday hotel st jamesnew york August hotel st jamesnew york 28, 2012. Two more Yosemite National Park visitors have been found with a mouse-borne virus blamed for the deaths of two people, bringing the total number of infections to six, state health officials said. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Michael Macor) Click photo to enlarge In a Tuesday Aug. 28, 2012 photo, Glenn Dean, a National Parks Occupational Safety and Health Specialist, inspects tent cabins for mice entry points at Curry Village at Yosemite National Park. Two more Yosemite National Park visitors have been found with a mouse-borne virus blamed for the deaths of two people, hotel st jamesnew york bringing the total number of infections to six, state health officials said. 1 2 3 4 FRESNO - Up to 10,000 people who were guests in certain lodging cabins at Yosemite National Park might have been exposed to a deadly mouse-borne virus, park officials confirmed Friday as rangers handled a slew of calls from frightened visitors.
Park concessionaire Delaware North Co. sent letters and emails this week to nearly 3,000 people who reserved the insulated "Signature" cabins between June and August, hotel st jamesnew york warning them that they might have been exposed.
The cabins hold up to four people, and park spokesman Scott Gediman hotel st jamesnew york said Friday that means up to 7,000 more visitors might have been exposed to the virus that so far has killed two people and sickened four others.
"We're reaching out and they are reaching out to us, and we are trying in every way shape and form to be transparent and forthright," he said. "We want to tell people hotel st jamesnew york this is what we know. The most important thing is the safety of park visitors and employees."
Alerts sent to state and county public health agencies, as well as local doctors and hospitals, have turned up other suspected cases that have not yet been confirmed, Advertisement according to the Centers for Disease Control hotel st jamesnew york and Prevention.
Park officials worked quickly to disinfect all 400 of the Curry Village cabins when the outbreak first was detected earlier this month. When the outbreak was narrowed to the 91 double-walled insulated cabins, the California Department of Public Health ordered them shut down Tuesday.
Park officials said the double-walled design of those particular cabins made it easy for mice to nest between the walls. The disease is carried in the feces, urine and saliva of deer mice and other rodents hotel st jamesnew york and carried on airborne aerosol particles and dust.
As the busy Labor Day weekend launches and word about the outbreak spread, some guests were cancelling lodging reservations hotel st jamesnew york at the park. But Gediman says others on waiting lists for hard-to-get accommodations are snapping them up.
The 91 insulated, high-end canvas cabins in the century-old Curry Village are new to the park. They were constructed in 2009 to replace some that had been closed or damaged after parts of Curry Village, which sits below the 3,000-foot Glacier Point promontory, hotel st jamesnew york were determined to be in a rock-fall hazard zone.
The deer mice most prone to carrying the virus can squeeze through holes just one-quarter-inch in diameter. hotel st jamesnew york They are distinguished from solid-colored house mice by their white bellies and gray and brown bodies.
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