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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2001

Researchers studying the deadly hantavirus are worried that the deer mice population in Montana appears to be flourishing this year.

Deer mice are being studied because they carry the respiratory disease. Researchers at Montana Tech want to determine how their numbers is related to the percentage of persons infected.

The hantavirus became a national concen when it was discovered among the Four Corners area of the Southwest. Mostly Navajo men and women were being afflicted, and dying, from the virus.

In June, a federal judge awarded $2.1 million in damages to the widow of a Navajo man whom the Indian Health Service misdiagnosed. Hardy Haceesa died of the hantavirus in 1998.

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