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	SURVIVOR - BILL: We clean out tractor cabs and combine cabs, truck cabs, grain grills and planters, boxes and those things, they all carry, or they all have mice nests, rat nests or whatever, whatever the case may be. Rodent nest and then that's where I got exposed, I guess, I am not real sure.
	(Ali S. Khan, M.D., Epidemiologist, CDC) DR. KHAN: We don't know exactly how each specific individual has become infected but because there are a variety of circumstances under which people become infected either at work, or play, or at home.
	The common factor however, appears to be contact with infected rodents and what's clear is that the closer this contact with the rodents the more likely somebody is to become ill.

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