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DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a La Plata County man who died after becoming infected with hantavirus, a rare but often deadly disease carried by deer mice.
County Coroner Jann Smith identified the victim Monday as 36-year-old Thaddeus Conan Stahl, of Hesperus. The Durango Herald reports (http://goo.gl/ySu2TD ) Stahl started feeling symptoms April 3 and died April 6.
Mark Salley, a spokesman for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, says it is the second confirmed case of hantavirus in the state this year. In both cases, the disease was fatal.
The state health department has documented more than 90 cases of hantavirus in Colorado since 1993. More than 40 percent of people died from the infection.
Hantavirus symptoms include fever, body aches, headache and vomiting.
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