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	NARRATOR: These safety precautions also apply to your vacation...
	...or where you work because rodents can go anywhere.
	In conclusion, make it difficult for the rodents to live where you live by keeping your home clean and controlling rodent populations on the inside as well as the outside of your home. But above all else use safety precautions to protect yourself.
	And remember that your chances of getting Hantavirus disease are very low, but the consequences of getting it are very serious.

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This page last reviewed February 28, 2000.

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