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General:Prevention: Heavy Infestations I CDC Hantaviruses Pagel of 2 <br /> National Center for Infectious Diseases <br /> Aft Special Pathogens Branch <br /> lori <br /> F04peAll About Hantaviruses <br /> All About Hantaviruses Home I General Information <br /> Technical Information I Contact Us <br /> Site Contents <br /> • General Special Precautions for Homes of Persons with Confirmed <br /> Information Hantavirus Infection or Buildings with Heavy Rodent Infestations <br /> Tracking a <br /> Mystery Special precautions should be used for cleaning homes or buildings with heavy <br /> Disease rodent infestations in areas where HPS has been reported. If you are attempting <br /> • How is HPS to deal with such an infestation,it is recommended that you contact the <br /> Transmitted? responsible local, state,or federal public health agency for guidance. <br /> • Who Is at Risk <br /> H Getting The special precautions may also apply to vacant dwellings that have attracted <br /> HPS? P P Y PP Y g <br /> • What are the numbers of rodents while unoccupied and to dwellings and other structures that <br /> Symptoms of have been occupied by persons with confirmed hantavirus infection. <br /> HPS? <br /> How Do I Workers who are either hired specifically to perform the clean-up or asked to <br /> Prevent HPS? do so as part of their work activities should receive a thorough orientation from <br /> Seal Up! Trap the responsible health agency about hantavirus transmission and should be <br /> Up! Clean trained to perform the required activities safely. <br /> • Preventing <br /> Hantavirus, Precautions To Be Used:. <br /> Indoors <br /> and . Persons involved in the clean-up should wear coveralls(disposable, if <br /> Outdoors possible),rubber boots or disposable shoe covers,rubber or plastic <br /> Common gloves protective goggles, and an appropriate respiratory protectionSigns <br /> of device, such as a half-mask air-purifying(or negative-pressure)respirator <br /> Rodent with a high-efficiency particulate air(HEPA) filter or a powered air- <br /> Infestation purifying respirator(PAPR)with HEPA filters. <br /> Cleaninq_ <br /> up Note The HEPA classification recently has been discontinued. Please <br /> nfes Heavations read "Update On the Nomenclature and Use of Respirators as a <br /> Precautions Precaution for Hantavirus Infection, February, 1999' for details. <br /> for <br /> Workers Personal protective gear should be decontaminated upon removal at the <br /> • Respirator end of the day. If the coveralls are not disposable, they should be <br /> Update laundered on site. If no laundry facilities are available,the coveralls <br /> Precautions should be immersed in liquid disinfectant until they can be washed. <br /> for All potentially infective waste material (including respirator filters)from <br /> Campers clean-up operations that cannot be burned or deep buried on site should <br /> and P P P !, <br /> Hikers be double bagged in appropriate plastic bags. The bagged material should <br /> • Treatinq then be labeled as infectious(if it is to be transported) and disposed of in <br /> Hantavirus accordance with local requirements for infectious waste. <br /> . Pulmonary . Workers who develop symptoms suggestive of HPS within 45 days of the <br /> Syndrome last potential exposure should immediately seek medical attention. The <br /> • Technical physician should contact local health authorities promptly if hantavirus- <br /> Infnrmatinn <br /> http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/noframes/prevent4.htm 11/18/2005 <br />