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Preventing Hantavirus Disease
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September, 1994 
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Tim - Survivor of Hantavirus Disease Hospital intensive care room Respirator Intravenous therapy Patient computer monitor Tim SURVIVOR - TIM:
I wish everybody could experience just a minute of what you go through when you have that disease.

Or what it is like to have that aspirator down your throat, and to have somebody providing suction for you, to not be able to talk, to not be able to move, to not be able to breath.

The people that think that this isn't significant would have a whole different outlook on life if they knew how close I came to death and what kind of death that is.

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