Playing Cat and Mouse with Healthcare

After the death of a third person exposed to the mouse-borne hantavirus, public health officials are expanding their warning to include more than 22,000 visitors to Yosemite National Park. So far, eight people who visited the 1,100-square-mile park in California this summer have been infected.

Hantavirus has been around for hundreds of years, with the first outbreak being chronicled before the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. The disease made a comeback in 1992 in the Four Corner’s area of the U.S., though it’s reappeared intermittently over the years, including 1959 and 1978.

Knowing this, one might think the National Park Service would have had an ongoing rodent abatement program in operation to protect visitors to the park. But it’s clear after so many people have turned up infected, the it didn’t.

Frightening to realize the National Park Service is run by the same folks who’ll be overseeing ObamaCare.