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Hantavirus: What You Need to Know

KSJD | By Austin Cope
Published August 9, 2017 at 8:04 AM MDT
US Department of Agriculture

Montezuma County has recently seen a case of hantavirus—one of three cases in the state of Colorado. The infected person was successfully treated and is no longer in danger. To find out more about hantavirus, KSJD's Austin Cope spoke with Lauri Wood, a public health nurse with the Montezuma County Health Department.
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Austin Cope
Austin Cope is a former Morning Edition host for KSJD and now produces work on a freelance basis for the station. He grew up in Cortez and hosted a show on KSJD when he was 10 years old. After graduating from Montezuma-Cortez High School in 2010, he lived in Belgium, Ohio, Spain, northern Wyoming, and Himachal Pradesh, India before returning to the Cortez area. He has a degree in Politics from Oberlin College in Ohio.
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