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1. Examining the Roles Of Environmental Factors on the Prevalence of Sin Nombre Virus: Sudden Aspen Decline to Ambient Ground Temperature

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Human infection with animal-borne diseases continually rises from year to year, and because of this growing threat to human health, there is considerable interest in factors that could be responsible. Human disturbance of wildlife habitat has been cited as one of the primary mechanisms the has led to the increased prevalence of these animal-borne diseases, as animals that are displaced from their native habitats are more likely to come into contact...

2. How Can Hantaviruses Kill Humans but Leave Mice Unaffected: An Evaluation of the Immune Response of Deer Mice to Sin Nombre Virus

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Sin Nombre Virus (SNV) is a hantavirus that causes high mortality (>38%) in humans. Deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) are the primary host of SNV, and unlike humans, deer mice infected with SNV have few outward signs or symptoms of disease. The reasons for such asymptomatic infection in deer mice of have not been well studied; however, this information may be useful in uncovering therapies that could reduce human SNV mortality. Therefore, the objective...
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