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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120919:18:27:00

but why some people got sick and others didn't remains a mystery. >> the cases have been different cabins, different families. >> 23,000 campers may have been he can posed to the virus. epidemiologists want to know if the virus first identified in 1993 has mutated. >> to understand how it has evolved and the mechanisms by which viruses such as hantavirus can jump from animals to humans. >> reporter: live at yosemite there is evidence that the deer mice population in the park is growing. that could explain the outbreak. park attendance is down but there are still a lot of visitors here. most of them tell us they appreciate the park's education outreach efforts and say they

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120919:18:25:00

megyn: a package bomb explodes at a kosher grocery store in a paris suburb. no word on the motive but the attack comes as france gets ready to shut embassies and schools around the world amid fears of a backlash over a series of ericsear -- a series s of the prophet mohammad. protests began on 9/11 with protests in cairo and benghazi, libya. new concerns about a deadly disease spreading at one of our largest national parks. the outbreak of the hantavirus has infected 9 people, three of them have died.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20120911:09:15:00

hope to feature on tv made it just not how they planned. ryan owens, abc new, dallas. >> scary thing about the hantavirus it takes six weeks to develop these symptoms, which are flu-like symptoms. >> so you're long gone from wherever you caught it and you have the symptoms and you think you have the flu. it can be deadly. no real cure for it. if you get it go to an emergency room right away. >> or go to dr. muller. >> wear one of those all the time and you will never get anything. >> what is that? >> stylish but practical. wouldn't you say? >> yes. >> no hanta. >> it's hot. >> thank you. exactly what i was looking for. >> hot mess that is. coming up -- famous movie director's controversial comments about incest. >> yeah. from the newsdesk to the talk show couch, how katie couric made out on her memorable show next in "the skinny." >> announcer: abc's "world news now" will continue after this fr

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20120911:09:14:00

the wood lands, north of houston. a woman cleaning the home for a future episode of tlc's "hoarding buried alive" developed a respiratory disease caused by the hantavirus. >> hantavirus is a disease spread by rodents -- when you go through the process of cleaning a home, sweeping, vacuuming it goes into the air. when it goes into the air it is breathed in and affects the lungs. >> reporter: the virus is fatal up to half the time. the woman is recovering, but a deputy sits outside the house to make sure everyone stays a safe distance away. as many as 30 people between the clean-up and film crews were in and out of the home over the last two weeks. >> that house was like -- it was made to order for that kind of thing. not any cleaning going on, nothing getting moved around and there are rodents inside. >> reporter: this comes after three visitors to yosemite national park died from the same virus after staying in infested cabins. tens of thousands of other tourists were warned to watch for symptoms. the producers of "hoarding" refused to comment on this case, but this morning the home they

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120907:18:24:00

rodents. 20,000 people who made trips to one of america's most visited national parks could be at risk. trace gallagher is following it all. >> reporter: the reason this warning has been expanded because we thought it was focused on one tent camp in yosemite. now it turn out some of the victims were in other camps in and around yosemite miles away. the warning goes from 10,000 to 22,000. more than double. there are 8 victims who have come down with the hantavirus. three have died. the latest victim lived in virginia. toxicology reports confirmed it was the hantavirus he died from. the virus takes up to six weeks to present with symptoms, then you have to diagnose it. one out of three people who get this actually die because it severely limit breathing. the earlier you catch this the better chance you have of

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120907:16:38:00

quickly how serious this is but also how rare this is. the cdc report from 93 to 2011 there were 587 cases. you can not get the hantavirus from another person. it comes mostly from rodent droppings. the problem, the virus is deadly. about 30% of the people who get it die. that means if 10 people have it, three of them will die and there is no cure. it attacks the respiratory system very rapidly. at yosemite park this hour they're shutting down and disinfecting tent after tent. they have been doing this for a couple of weeks. what is different now first they thought the virus was limited to one area of the enormous park. now they're saying, no, they will look at tent cabins in many different locations. the world health organization has issued a global alert this week regarding the hantavirus cases in yosemite. they're telling travelers all around the world who come here for this destination point, yosemite, to avoid any exposure to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20120907:10:08:00

and estimated 23,000 people, think about that, 23,000 have been killed since that violence began in march of last year. >> numbers -- incomprehensible. in medical news, a new study suggesting mammograms for young women at high risk of breast cancer may do more harm than good. researchers found that women who have a history of chest radiation in their 20s had a 43% higher risk. they say an mri is a safer choice for young women. although mammograms are beneficial for women over 50. i had one, had to have a biopsy, couple years ago, i would rather be on the safe side. >> amen to that. third visitor to yosemite national park died of hantavirus. eight campers in total have been diagnosed with the rare rodent-borne disease since june. the newest victim was found in a second area of the park, high sierra camp. 16,000 people have stayed in the two affected areas this summer alone. although there is no cure for the disease, it is very rare. a forest fire burning in southern washington state is now threatening more than 400 homes in a popular recreation area.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120903:15:53:00

visitors may have been exposed to a deadly hantavirus. it is spread by rodents. six people have been infected, two of them have died the park sending letters to guests who stayed in certain cabins between june and august sparking a wave of phone calls from frightened visitors looking for answers. >> i did think about it and i know i had my dad calling me. he knew we were staying here. he was concerned about us. >> we didn't rent one very close to the park, about 45 minutes away because we didn't want to deal with it. it is very scary. jenna: the virus is rare but definitely serious. according to the cdc there have been nearly 600 cases of hantavirus in the u.s. from 1993 to 2011. one-third of them were fatal. so rare but serious. joining us now, managing editor of foxnewshealth.com, fox news medical a-teamer, dr. manny alvarez. dr. manny, what make this is virus a dangerous virus?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120831:19:54:00

down with the hantavirus bringing the total number of recent cases to six, with two of them dying. hantavirus spreads through rats and mice and causes flu like symptoms that can be hidden for a month and a half after exposure and kills one in three people that it infects. there is no cure. the chair of vanderbilt's department of preventive medicine. doctor, i guess the thing is, there are mice droppings that are caught in the air and we inhale the mice droppings and the mice love us because of all the food. how do you avoid this? >>guest: it is hard to avoid. the virus is in the mice, it comes out in their droppings and urine, and winds stir it up and we breath it in. it is very, very hard to avoid. you could avoid it by not going to the park or going to the pool, instead. >>trace: the other thing is,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120831:19:55:00

it takes a month or a month and a half to present with symptoms. this is one of the things where who knows who you got it from and you do not present for a month and a half, it is frightening. >>guest: it is frightening. if people leave the national parks, particularly yellowstone and become sick, they should tell their doctor they have been had and they could have been supposed to hantavirus. >>trace: now we are reading there are 1,600 cases of west mile and 66 people have died. it surprises me but you are saying the numbers do not surprise you. why? >>guest: well, west nile is always a surprise because it is a new virus in this hemisphere. it is complex ecosystem. the virus is in the birds, it gets in the mosquitoes and the mosquitoes boat us. the interaction of the birds and mosquitoes determine how much west nile we are going do have and in what parts of the country. the drought may have made it

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