Posted on 03/24/2020 9:56:00 AM PDT by USA Conservative
You know, you might have something there. The dumps outside of Mexico DF used to be called la mierda for obvious reasons.
Coronavirus turns into Hantavirus with 36% Death Rate - Transmission Rate Even Worse that Old Coronavirus"
Anything to keep the flames of panic fanned and burning hot...
Let's hope FR doesn't continue to be a purveyor of panic with those who seek out every possible bit of bad news.
Next he will marry Cher and you will know he is bad off.
At least he doesn’t have Rat Lungworm.
Unless you habitually breathe powdered field mouse droppings you’re probably good.
Hantavirus is already present in the US, and has been for years. Hot spots are the southwest and other places such as along the Appalachian trail at the trail shelters. Mice and other rodents carry it. It can be present in rodent feces and other rodent debris. When cleaning up after rodents use a HEPA filter, mask, and possibly lightly spray the area to keep dust down.
When cleaning up rodent leavings we always wet with Lysol and let it sit for five minutes before starting work.
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln - one virus at a time, please
It’s why one of my chores as a teenager was to shot rats in the barn
It’s not just in rural areas of the southwest. South Reno has had two deaths from it since 2017. It’s spread by deer mice, not just any rodent, and it spreads from their droppings, urine, saliva, and blood. On average 38% of cases are fatal.
Good marksmanship practice!
let’s all take a Xanax before we freak out about this too. It’s no good for the nerves people. Stop overwhelming yoursellves
Heck, the WHO was saying Covid-19 wasn’t spread by human-human transmission thru mid-January (!!). Thank you lying Chinese and moron WHO medicrats.
We’d do it at night. We’d tape a high-intensity flashlight to the barrel of a CO2 air rifle. We’d shine the light over the haybales and look for eyeshine.
Cats have green shine OK
Dog silver shine OK
Snake-Yellow OK
Rat, rabbit, gopher little beady red eyeshine - fire until the shine goes away
This is a known virus. We have outbreaks in the US Southwest during droughts when the air gets especially dry and people sweep up dried droppings of infected mice/rats. It was a big thing in the news a few decades ago. Now it is a routine thing every few years there is a small cluster of a dozen or so people.
Death rate times spread rate is the danger. This one has almost no spread rate even if it is highly lethal.
This is a known virus group, that was a big news item in the 1990s when no one knew what it was, then it just pops up every few years when it infects and kills a half-dozen to a dozen people during a drought.
Solution: Mop the floor, don’t sweep up rodent droppings during desert droughts when the critters move into houses.
lol...we hunt rabbits at night.Look for the red.
There was a hantavirus death in New York State.
https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/outbreaks/yosemite/index.html
Yeah, I remember when Yosemite went had cases
The Hantavirus was around 1993. People were in such a panic that there were mass-cancelations of reservations in the Southwest U.S.
Having read the description of what put you at risk (you practically had to mainline rodent droppings), I realized countless people were panicking for nothing. Since my parents & I were headed to the SW that Summer, we picked up a lot of last-minute reservations (including at Mesa Verde). A nice trip and nobody got sick.
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