THE Health Protection Agency (HPA) is contacting Britons who may have visited Yosemite National Park in the United States, which is at the centre of an outbreak of a deadly virus that has killed two people.
About 100 UK travellers have been identified as having stayed at Yosemite, in California, between mid-June and the end of August.
The agency said it was not aware of any cases of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) – which is carried by rodents – in Britons who had been there on holiday.
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