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The following references provides safety and health
information to aid in the prevention and control of hantavirus hazards.
- How
Do I Prevent HPS? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Provides
provides tips, common signs, precautions, and cleanup information for the
prevention of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS).
- Hantavirus
Pulmonary Syndrome -- United States: Updated Recommendations for Risk
Reduction. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) 51(RR09);1-12, (2002, July 26). Provides
updated recommendations for prevention and control of hantavirus infections
associated with rodents in the United States.
- Preventing
Hantavirus Disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
(1994, September). Provides and educational video that teaches how to
prevent infection with hantavirus.
- Preventing
Hantavirus Disease. Offers the video as a series of web pages.
- Preventing Hantavirus Disease. The entire
package is available for download in a 12 MB ZIP.
- Laboratory
Management of Agents Associated with Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: Interim
Biosafety Guidelines. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) 43(RR-7);1-7, (1994, May 13).
Provides interim biosafety guidelines for preventing laboratory-associated
infections with agents that cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
- Rodent Exclusion Techniques. National Park
Service (NPS), (2005), 2 MB PDF,
79 pages. Provides a training guide for NPS employees offering information
on rodent biology and ecology, and methods for building inspection and
rodent exclusion.
- For additional information, see OSHA's Safety and Health Topics Pages on:
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