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	NARRATOR: The most common times that people come into contact with rodents are spring and summer when people are opening up cabins or sheds and cleaning out-buildings that have been closed during the winter.
	SURVIVOR - BILL: Yes, I guess the spring I got sick in '92, I don't remember seeing any more mice than usual. But because we were busier, I do remember being exposed to more mice and rodents nests in the cleaning of equipment.
	NARRATOR: Fall is also an important time because that's when mice tend to come indoors to seek warm shelter during the winter months.
	SURVIVOR - ODIS: In the fall mice come in any crack or ...
	...any space that they can get through in anybody's house. Everybody has mice. And there's no way to tell the sick ones from the well ones.

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