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To the Editor: In May 1993, a new hantavirus-associated acute respiratory illness was recognized in the southwestern United States. Laboratory evidence of the infection has been confirmed in 30 patients, of whom 20 have died. All three Colorado patients died. A confirmed case is characterized by the abrupt onset of fever, myalgias, and headache, rapidly followed by unexplained adult respiratory distress syndrome or bilateral pulmonary interstitial infiltrates with respiratory failure and laboratory evidence of recent hantavirus infection^1,2,3. We describe a confirmed case of hantavirus infection treated successfully with intravenous ribavirin.

A previously healthy 36-year-old woman was admitted to a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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