In a tragic incident after the wife of Sheriff Gene Hackman Betsy Arakawa, a California man, identified as Rodrigo Becerra, 26 years, died of the Hantavirus lung syndrome, a rare disease of infectious rats associated with rodents.
Arakawa, 65, a classic pianist married Hackman, lost her life probably 11 February, the head physician in the New Mexico Heather Jarrell said at a press conference.
Becerra worked as Bell Hop in Mammoth Mountain Inn, where rodent droppings were revealed behind the reception of the device.
Becerr’s sister after his death
His family told Sfgate that he had become seriously ill and was given antibiotics the night before the cramps in his mammoth lakes were discovered, where he eventually died of the lung syndrome Hantavirus.
Becerra was sick two weeks before the rescuers who found him without breath and pulse, adding that he apparently suffered the late stages of elusive illness, regardless of the report of the coroner that read his cause of death, is the “waiting pathology in toxicology”, explained his sister Mariela.
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“They didn’t think something was bad enough to admit it or keep it overnight, but to leave the next morning, it was frustrating. They excluded it. If it even raises the awareness of doctors that just because patients don’t remember that they are exposed to mice, it doesn’t mean it is impossible.
According to Santa Fe County Adan Mendoza, Arakawa, 65, he last left the large estate of February 11, who was also the same day when she had been communicating with anyone for the last time.
“A very small number of rodents’ droppings were found in the area of bell and behind the reception, very near the front entrance at Mammoth Mountain Inn (MMI),” said Sfgate David Andrews, Health and Security Director for Mammoth Mountain Ski and said.
“The trace amount was concerned with medical officials … We have no reason to worry about the exhibition at the MMI workplace for our employees or guests,” he added.
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The output stated that no signs of rodents or droppings were found in the residence provided. The hospital in which Becerra entered, the night before death, excluded the virus as a cause and released it.
According to Coroner’s report acquired by SFGATE, the second person who died of Hantavirus at the beginning of this year, also visited the same hospital and was filed with antibiotics before died three days later.
Hantavirus and its cases in the US
Hantavirus is transmitted by exposure to feces, urine or saliva infected with mice, most often inhalation particles in contaminated air. Symptoms often begin as a flu, but can quickly escalate on severe respiratory problems.
At the beginning of this month, Mono County Public Health said that three people died of a rare virus – and their workplaces were discovered by rodents’ evidence.
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“Note that investigators have found evidence of the presence of mice at the workplaces of each of these three people,” Sfgate quoted a spokesman for Heath, adding, “But they did not find gross contamination, situations that would pose an apparent health risk.”
Centers for control and prevention of diseases state that Hantavirus takes lives of about a third of infected, which is almost 20 to 50 people every year in the US. Almost 865 cases of illness were reported in the US in 1993 and 2022.
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