Chile on alert as prison rats spread hantavirus

6 February 2012, 10:33 am

SANTIAGO, CHILE (AP) - Chile declared a public health alert Monday over a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people and infected at least 10 others. Health Minister Jaime Manalich said wildfires in the southern Bio Bio and Araucania regions have driven rats from their normal habitat into places where people ...... Read More »

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