[californiadisasters] Hantavirus Kills Man at Bodie

Hantavirus suspected in death

• By David Benda
• Redding Record-Searchlight
  
• Record-Searchlight
• Posted August 14, 2010 at 9:56 p.m.

Mono County health officials believe a 61-year-old Redding man who was working as a seasonal park employee in Bodie died late last week from hantavirus, a rare disease carried by rodents.

Richard Laird Johnson died Thursday afternoon at a Reno hospital after suffering from flu-like symptoms for four days.

Further tests are being conducted to confirm Johnson's cause of death, a Washoe County medical examiner's investigator said Saturday by phone from Reno.

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