National Park Service Videotapes

"Commensal Rodents." This video illustrates how to rodent- proof buildings.

"Integrated Pest Management." This video illustrates the application of the IPM decision-making process in the field.

The above videos are available on loan from your regional, support office, or cluster IPM Coordinators.

Publications

Mechanical Rodent Proofing Techniques, by Gerard Hoddenbach, Jerry Johnson, and Carol DiSalvo. 1997. Published by the National Park Service Public Health Program. Copies of this publication are available from your Public Health Consultant, or your regional, support office, or cluster IPM Coordinator. It can also be found at the following Web address: http://www.nps.gov/public_health/inter/info/general/rpmanual.pdf Note: On the Web, the publication is titled Rodent Exclusion Techniques.

Hantavirus Protection Measures - Wildlife Health Bulletin 04-02

Research Papers on Rodent-proofing

Douglass, R. J., Kuenzi, A. J., Williams, C. Y., et al. 2003. Removing deer mice from buildings and the risk for human exposure to Sin Nombre virus. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 9(3):390-392.

Glass, G. E., Johnson, J. S., Hodenbach [sic] G. A., et al. 1997. Experimental evaluation of rodent exclusion methods to reduce hantavirus transmission to humans in rural housing. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 56(4):359-364.

Hopkins, A. S., Whitetail-Eagle, J., Corneli, A. L., et al. 2002. Experimental evaluation of rodent exclusion methods to reduce hantavirus transmission to residents in a native American community in New Mexico. Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 2(2):61-68.

Park IPM Plans

Many parks in the Southwest have park IPM plans that include information on rodent control and information on hantavirus. See the following Web address for a sample plan for Big Bend National Park: http://www1.nrintra.nps.gov/ipm/ipm.cfm.

Annotated List of Selected Web Sites

http://www.nps.gov/public_health/zed/zed.htm
This is the home page for the National Park Service's Zoonotic and Environmentally Transmitted Diseases (ZED) Steering Committee. Many web sites are listed here.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hantvrus.htm
This is CDC's home page for hantavirus.

http://www1.nature.nps.gov/wv/ipm/manual.htm
This site contains the National Park Service's Integrated Pest Management Manual, which contains a chapter on fleas. It also contains some information on rodent-proofing, which is found in the chapter on rats.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID
This is the web site for CDC's Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

http://www.nps.gov/public_health/intra
This is the home page for the NPS Public Health Program.

http://www.nps.gov/public_health/intra/illness/hv_guide.htm
This document contains the NPS' "Interim Recommendations for Risk Reduction." These NPS HPS guidelines were issued in 1993 and have been superceded. However, they are included here for the historical record.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5109a1.htm
This CDC publication is the root document used by the NPS to update our hantavirus recommendations.

http://medical.smis.doi.gov/alerts/protwApp.pdf
This site contains the "Protocol for Inspection and Decontamination of Paper Records Potentially Contaminated by Rodents."

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/noframes/prevent8.htm
This site discusses rodent infestations.

http://www.nps.gov/public_health/inter/info/ppt/hvexcl.ppt
This web address has a powerpoint presentation.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/noframes/hpsslideset/index.htm
This contains an HPS slide set.

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/respiratoryprotection/index.html
OSHA site on Respiratory Protection.

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