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port in whatever way possible to ensure that this tragedy does not strike again."
• In South Dakota, the disease is most often spread by deer mice, according to the state Department of Health. A department spokeswoman confirmed it had received a report that a Shannon County girl age 10 or younger had died Wednesday and lab tests confirmed hantavirus as the cause Friday.
• Sonia Weston, chairperson of the Oglala Sioux Tribe's Health & Human Services Committee, said in a statement that she had scheduled an emergency meeting with all health-related tribal programs and dealing with the issue would be the No. 1 health priority on the reservation.

• The first case of hantavirus in the United States was detected in 1993.
• In that case, a young, physically fit man began suffering from a shortness of breath and was rushed to a New Mexico hospital, where he died soon after, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While reviewing the results of the case, researchers learned that the

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