It spreads in secretions and poo of rodents, it’s not airborne like covid. That said, if you sweep up a dusty storage building with mouse droppings you can aerosolize it. Vacuums with crappy filters, the same. Bear in mind, any animal that grooms will spread their diseases with claw scratches. (Like when a bat passes rabies through a claw scratch…it’s because bats groom).
People can be dirty fuckers through. Not washing hands. Wiping their noses on the backs of their hands. Sneezing and coughing in public with no thought to cover, in any respect.
I once met someone who had caught it through aerosolized mouse feces while out in nature and almost died. Apparently his R/C helicopter had caused the contagious dust to spread and he inhaled it.
It spreads in secretions and poo of rodents, it’s not airborne like covid. That said, if you sweep up a dusty storage building with mouse droppings you can aerosolize it. Vacuums with crappy filters, the same. Bear in mind, any animal that grooms will spread their diseases with claw scratches. (Like when a bat passes rabies through a claw scratch…it’s because bats groom).
People can be dirty fuckers through. Not washing hands. Wiping their noses on the backs of their hands. Sneezing and coughing in public with no thought to cover, in any respect.
Yup. Best to use a string mop and wipe the mouse poop up. Mostly because it’s gross and who wants to breathe poop?
Thankfully, Hantavirus is mostly found in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) which as a species prefer to be outside.
If it jumps to the house mouse, (Mus musculus) we’re fucked.
I didn’t realize there were multiple genuses of mice. Neat
There are a lot of genuses of mice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnCndWVO-7k
Oh holy cats…! Thanks for that link, that guy is most deligtfully awkward and funny… I had a blast watching the video. Really like that channel.
I once met someone who had caught it through aerosolized mouse feces while out in nature and almost died. Apparently his R/C helicopter had caused the contagious dust to spread and he inhaled it.