Posted on 03/07/2025 3:48:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
Every case I’ve heard about where people survived the Hantavirus to say what happened they were cleaning, usually sweeping area with mouse droppings a few days before they got sick.
I think at press conference they said they found no droppings in home, but did in outbuilding.
It is rare for people to get it, but can be deadly. This whole deal is just so sad.
Hantavirus acts like a bad cold/flu then suddenly goes to respiratory distress. She likely had no idea she was that sick until it was too late.
Dogs don’t get Hantavirus. Two of their dogs are fine, the third one that died was in a kennel and likely died from no water/food.
Had hantavirus and bubonic plague on the worksite (Nevada high desert), probably a few other goodies I didn’t hear about. Vermin control was a serious business.
We were supposed to call the mouse patrol guy if we found droppings or a nest, but if we were seriously pressed for time we were also trained on how to clean it up ourselves.
And leave the rattler/sidewinder/hog nose snake alone. They are excellent vermin control.
Yes, a local girl of 17 died of it a few years ago after cleaning out a trailer here in the Great Basin Desert on the California/Nevada border.
Especially if they grew up dirt poor- they can’t get out of the habit if “being stingy” (or thrifty)- a lot of people are like thst actually. Hard habit to break
Out east here, we had a sportsman’s dinner every year, and one year 2 researchers came out and gave a talk about their,jobs in the field. They both said that part of their job was to trap mice and check for diseases, viruses etc, and they stated emphatically that they never do so without full hazmat suit protection because of plague and hanta virus- even though it is extremely rare in the east, it still happens.
A hiker stopped at a lean to in order to sleep the night- it was a double walled lean-to and mice had gotten in between the walls and nested. Fella got back home from hike, and keeled over- hanta virus-mgot freaked out by their talk as mice are really common in the country, and we are always having to trap them with the snap traps- and you know that they defecate and pee when hit by the trap.
In ny someone in the city got,an infestation of mice, and cleaned up the droppings, and got the virus. I think he might survived, can’t remeber now- that was in the city.
One of the saddest stories ever.
We have rodent problems in our outbuilding over the winter. They are mostly deer mice. I always worry about hantavirus and wear a respirator while using a vacuum with a Hepa-filter. I prep by spraying the droppings down with bleach and sweeping up the ones that I can get to.
the remedy is simple, have a couple of house cats, no problem.
he may not have ever used her bathroom in a mansion and with Alzheimer’s he probably lost track of time
my sister was a public health nurse in Wyoming and Arizona for the tribal areas. both plague and hunta are not unusual on the high desert areas
For sure. He may not have even known she was dead. She was taking care of him, and without her he probably got so weak he collapsed and died. So sad.
I’ve done the same - worn a respirator, used a vacuum with a HEPA filter and sprayed the area beforehand with 10% bleach solution in water. Wore nitrile gloves when moving boxes, tools, etc. and washed in soap and water before disposing, then soap and water for hands.
Presumably she might have been self-medicating and ignoring her HV symptoms. I have not read that they found evidence of a head bump that might have disoriented her.
That explains my question, just above. She thought she had a flu and then it gets markedly worse, perhaps during sleep.
Not according to this article:
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