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Prevention of HPS in the Laboratory
"Laboratory Management of Agents Associated with Hantavirus
Pulmonary Syndrome: Interim Biosafety Guidelines"
This document provides interim biosafety guidelines for preventing laboratory-associated
infections with agents that cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. It is
also part of the supplement to "Hantavirus Infection-- Southwestern
United States: Interim Recommendations for Risk Reduction", published
in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, May 13, 1994 /Vol.
43/No. 7
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Methods for Trapping and Sampling
Small Mammals for Virologic Testing
This manual is intended as a guide for those persons performing ecologic and
epidemiologic studies involving populations of rodents which are potentially infected with
hantavirus.
Controlling Rodent Infestations
How to handle small-scale infestations and how to prevent rodent infestations from
occurring is covered in "How Do I Prevent HPS?", a
series of pages designed for general readers in this web site.
Guidelines for dealing with particularly heavy rodent infestations may be found at: "Special Precautions for Homes of Persons with Confirmed
Hantavirus Infection or Buildings with Heavy Rodent Infestations"
"The Prevention of Hantavirus Disease" / "La
Prevencion del Hantavirus" hand-out card. Downloadable direct from our web
page! For use in HPS prevention efforts. This 3.3" x 11" card has
simply written tips and pictures on rodent-proofing a home and cleaning up a rodent
infestation. It's available in English and Spanish. The card can be downloaded in
two versions: as two full-size web images, and as two 300 dpi .tif images that can be sent
to a quick printer for production as two-sided handout cards.
See the Teaching Materials page for other-prevention related
materials available online and by mail from Special Pathogens Branch.
Handling Frequent Exposures to Rodents
Please see "Precautions for Workers in Affected Areas
Who are Regularly Exposed to Rodents".
Updated Information on Respirator Use
Read the "Update On the Nomenclature and Use of
Respirators as a Precaution for Hantavirus Infection, February, 1999".
Formal Risk Reduction Recommendations
See "Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome-United States: Updated Recommendations
for Risk Reduction" Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
July 26, 2002/Vol. 51/No. RR-9
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