Hantavirus cases have happy endings decade apart

Hantavirus may not be a very common disease.
But it can be deadly.
Joe Merriam almost found that out the hard way.
Merriam’s daughter, Annie, contracted the disease in 1999, during the summer before her senior year at Meeker High School. She nearly died.
If not for quick action taken by doctors, Annie would not have survived.
“They put her on a Learjet to fly her to a hospital in Albuquerque (New Mexico),” Merriam said.…