Nevada Globe: On November 8, the Washoe County Health District (WCHD) identified a case of hantavirus in a Washoe County resident.
According to authorities, the patient is a teenager who has been hospitalized. No other information is available, and the investigation is ongoing.
Since December 2020, this is the first hantavirus case reported in Washoe County. Since 2019, four incidents with one fatality have been documented.
Hantavirus is an uncommon respiratory ailment that can cause severe illness in people. It is transmitted by inhaling or touching virus particles after contact with infected rodents, most frequently deer mice. This generally occurs when working or playing in regions containing mouse droppings, urine, or saliva, or when cleaning up rodent droppings or nesting material.
The onset of Hantavirus symptoms might range from a few days to eight weeks following exposure. Fever, headache, abdominal discomfort, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle aches, chills, and dizziness all be among the initial symptoms. Four to ten days after the onset of the initial symptoms, coughing, shortness of breath, and fluid accumulation in the lungs develop. more
Why is this in the news? Considering how it is thought to be contracted, a days-to-months incubation for symptoms to present, and it’s a virus, what are you going to do?
I hate to wear masks.
But if there’s any one thing that will get me to VOLUNTEER to wear a mask, it would be working around wild mice & their crap.
Too many people down in the desert southwest get hanta just from inhaling dust blowing around with pulverized mouse crap in it.
I sure hope there is an experimental mRNA vaccine in the works.
What’s next, a return of Bubonic plague?
I will get right on developing a vaccine. Trust me.
@geoff:
L.A. already had that.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-bubonic-plague-likely-catch/