My mother’s friend died of an infection from changing kitty litter. It may have been the same virus.
How can that be? Cats kill rodents.
That was probably toxoplasmosis which is a parasitic infection not a virus.
My AI research assistant tells me that cats and dogs don’t spread hanta virus to humans, but they could be infected. It seems counter-intuitive that it cannot be spread to humans by any infected animal. So far, it seems to be spread by urine, saliva and droppings of some rodents...either by aerosol route or direct route like touching or breathing it in. Since not all cat urine or feces is tested for it, the general idea is that it is not infectious to humans.
Cat litter can harbor other viruses or parasites, however.
FYI, and IMHO
No, not the same. The kitty litter ds is toxoplasmosis.