A quick web search turned up a bunch of articles.

I also went to the Yosemite web site and searched on "hantavirus" and got 4 hits on the site:

http://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm

From what I have read, it seems pretty straight forward - the disease is transmitted by deer mice, so anyone who came in contact with the mice or their leavings could have been infected. Due to the type of lodging, the Signature tents are most likely to have deer mice in them. The symptoms are listed in the articles, so anyone who has been to Yosemite and experiences those symptoms should seek medical attention. It is a virus and has to run its course, but early medical attention seems to significantly increase the survival rate.

Thanks for your thoughts.....I was trying to determine exactly where the Signature Tent cabins were located and ended up contacting Curry Village directly. They are apparently somewhere near the large parking lot and the main road...pretty far away from where we stayed. I think it should be fine. I just felt as though the information was trickling out of Yosemite and wanted to make sure I knew everything there was available to date. Again, thanks.

I think you feel the effects very quickly. So, if you get sick at all in the next week or so, I would for sure see a doc quickly. Chills, fever, muscle aches are the first sign.

Yosemite folks said they contacted all 1700 visiters to Curry Village.

Watched a news story yesterday on the local station in SF. They have sealed the tents so there are no gaps, are in the process of spraying an cleaning each tent and changing out the interior.

According to the radio, the authorities are trying to contact anyone who has stayed in the area of the outbreak. Anyone worried might want to call the Park Service in Yosemite.

This virus was found in Colorado, and I called authorities about it, since we had seen random mice in our mountain home. I was told you would have to handle a LOT of mice droppings to get it.

You guys are making me nervous We're going to Yosemite in a month, and not to Curry area, still...

I was told you would have to handle a LOT of mice droppings to get it.

I doubt that the persons who contracted the disease in Yosemite were handling a lot of mouse droppings. My suspicion is that the Colorado authorities would be less cavalier about it if litigation were a possibility, as it may be in the Yosemite incidents.

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Outbreak-forces-closure-of-Yosemite-cabins-3829153.php

Dayenu: you will be fine. Go and have a great time.

Yes, Ma'am

There a few casinos up that way so Mr. Again can play the "slut" machines

They figured out that the tent cabins are double walled. The mice were living between the walls. What I can't figure out is why the people who sweep and clean have not got sick yet.
Not all the mice are infected but you get exposed to the airborne dust from an infected one, you get sick weeks later.

Tomfuller I had the same thought about the cleaning staff. I was disturbed after seeing a photo today of a cleaning crew disinfecting tents without masks.

How awful!
My son and dil stayed at curry village end of may/beginning of June. I just pulled up their trip photos and it looks like they stayed in a regular tent as I can see daylight thru the walls.

Michael, I would not call it "cavalier".

The person I spoke with in Colorado had seen the housing where infected people lived. She said it was awfully filthy with mice droppings everywhere. In her experience, this was common for people who were infected. Maybe the Colorado strain is different.

We always battle mice encroaching into our CO mountain home garage, in an area where hantavirus was found. We never got sick, over several years.

"There a few casinos up that way so Mr. Again can play the "slut" machines"

Hahaha I still remember that typo!!

Who said it was a typo?

I'm just seeing on Anderson Cooper that the tent cabins have been closed indefinitely. It's reported that 10,000 people are at risk.

What a deplorable situation for those poor travelers. I am guessing that the fact the rats lived for quite a while in the space/double walls - along with their droppings - may have upped the potency/concentration of the disease/germs.

am guessing that the fact the rats

They're not rats, they're mice.

Story is not getting better:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/health/ci_21483172/third-hantavirus-death-linked-yosemite-national-park?source=inthenews

That's a rather cute little mouse.

I am pretty sure that Prairie Dogs carry bubonic plague and hantavirus too. I think I noticed that years ago on the nps websites at places like Bryce and Zion.

Having read several articles now, it seems that most people develop symptoms the first six weeks after exposure.

It would be interesting to know if the people staying in Curry Village took showers in a certain area, etc. I would also wonder if they had food in their tents that mice could have perhaps gotten in to. I am pretty sure that the signature tents have heat. I wonder if the heaters might have something to do with it.

This guy was not in Yosemite this year: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/oregon-man-survives-black-plague-lose-fingers-toes/story?id=16806758#.UEuL467P_VE
There is another case of the Black Plague in Colorado.
He was initially diagnosed with Cat Scratch Fever and sent home. The dead cat was dug up from the back yard and the Plague was confirmed.

There was some speculation that the mice liked to get in between the double walls of the "signature tents".

Hanta Virus is pretty common here in Nevada, by that I mean, the mice carry it. It isn't that easy to catch and most often you have to be in contact with their droppings.

We get mouse poop in our shed along side the chicke coop so we keep the droppings picked up as well as always getting rid of the mice. We only use a wet paper towel to pick them up, so no dust. You don't want to sweep or vacuum.

I am not positive the mice are actually Deer Mice, but I'm not taking a chance.

Most healthy people don't even know they have contracted the disease, and then there are the cases as mentioned above, fever, aches, etc. and the VERY few who actually die.

I would be careful, and watchful, but I wouldn't be freaked out about it.

Google Hantavirus..but to save you some time, the oft-seen mode of transmission is through inhaling aerosolized vectors or their waste products (the mice are sometimes aerosolized...this mode happens in places where they are in fields and the reaping machinery kills and aerosolizes the rodents and/or their droppings/urine) so it isn't necessarily surprising that the cleaners of those tents haven't been infected.

That is interesting Dukey, thanks. I first became aware of Hantavirus after a case in Colorado where the infected person died after cleaning and sweeping out a shed hence my concern for the cleaning crew.