• Zephorah@discuss.online
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    19 days ago

    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.

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      18 days ago

      That said, if you sweep up a dusty storage building with mouse droppings you can aerosolize it.

      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.

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      19 days ago

      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.