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Images Useful For Hantavirus Prevention Campaigns

Please feel free to use the following images in hantavirus (either HPS or HFRS) prevention or other educational materials. The images were produced by personnel at CDC; the deer mouse photo and "neon" mouse were redesigned and formatted by The Partnership, Inc. If you use the images, please identify the image as courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Partnership, Inc., as appropriate.

Each image is available in either bitmap format, suitable for use in printed materials, or in a high-quality jpeg format, suitable for use on the World Wide Web. To obtain each image, click on the "bitmap" or "jpeg" link to the right of each image below.  If you have trouble obtaining the image you want, please email  SPB at dvd1spath@cdc.gov, and specify which image, and which file format, you wish to have, and the image will be sent to you via return email.

peromyscus maniculatus deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus)
photo available as:
bitmap: (598w x 478h), 280Kb
jpeg: (598w x 478h), 48.2Kb
This rodent, native to many parts of North America, can carry Sin Nombre virus, which causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, or HPS.
Peromyscus maniculatus - neon "neon" deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus)
photo available as:
bitmap: (598w x 478h), 281Kb
jpeg: (598w x 478h), 52.7Kb
This rodent, native to many parts of North America, can carry Sin Nombre virus, which causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, or HPS.
Peromyscus maniculatus deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus)
drawing available as:
bitmap: (1690w x 879h), 4,353Kb
jpeg: (500w x 260h), 53.5Kb
This rodent, native to many parts of North America, can carry Sin Nombre virus, which causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, or HPS.
Oligoryzomys longicaudatus Oligoryzomys longicaudatus (Reservoir for Andes virus)
drawing available as:
bitmap: (2303w x 956h), 6,453Kb
jpeg: (700w x 291h), 76.7Kb
This rodent can carry Andes virus, which causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, or HPS.
Apodemus agrarius Apodemus agrarius (Reservoir for Hantaan virus)
drawing available as:
bitmap: (2052w x 922h), 5,542Kb
jpeg: (700w x 315H), 75.6Kb
This rodent can carry Hantaan virus, one of the Old World hantaviruses.  This virus causes a disease syndrome called hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, or HFRS.

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