This is the first study to examine the combined effects of multiple variables — including socioeconomic, environmental, land use and #rodent species — to determine which are most likely to predict the risk of people contracting #hantavirus
#Virology #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/11/vi11142501.html
New study finds higher hantavirus risk in drier, underdeveloped areas

Los Alamos study first to look at multiple variables to determine risk of the rodent-borne disease

Gefährlich und unterschätzt: Hantaviren können schwere Infektionen auslösen und sind weiter auf dem Vormarsch. Forschende aus Essen und Potsdam suchen nach Angriffspunkten für künftige Therapien. #Hantavirus #Medizinforschung #DFG @MedEssen
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/08/06/gefaehrliche-erreger-hantaviren-programmieren-gesunde-zellen-fuer-sich-um
Gefährliche Erreger: Hantaviren programmieren gesunde Zellen für sich um

As someone prone to health anxiety, and an epidemiologist in training, I get the occasional scare.

Today I was halfway through leaf-blowing our garage before noticing mouse droppings. In Colorado, deer mice are common. They are the primary reservoir of Hantavirus, which spreads via aerosolized feces and urine (CDC, 2025).

For repeated occupational exposure, Hantavirus has an estimated attack rate of 0.00071, or 1 case per 1,412 individuals exposed via rodent handling (PMID: 18252096). This, however, was a short, one-time exposure.

With a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of ~35% (PMID: 21762572), my estimated odds of infection from this incident are about 1 in 3,332, then a 35% chance of death if infected.

The risk is low, but the reminder is important: never sweep or blow around mouse droppings. Spray, soak, and wipe. Even anxious epidemiologists need that reminder.

CDPHE - https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/about/index.html

#Hantavirus #HealthAnxiety #Epidemiology #InfectiousDiseaseEpidemiology #EnvironmentalEpidemiology

About Hantavirus

An overview of hantavirus, how it's spread and how it can be treated.

Hantavirus

한타 바이러스는 무섭다. 건강한 남성이 부에노스 아이레스 근교 캠핑 후 고열로 시작해 점차 통증과 호흡곤란, 심장 기능상실, 신장 기능상실 등 심각한 증상으로 이어진 사례

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/healthy-man-goes-camping-lands-in-icu-for-40-days-with-respiratory-failure/

#hantavirus #한타바이러스

Healthy man goes camping—lands in ICU for 40 days with respiratory failure

The man was in Argentina when he fell ill, but such cases occur in the US, too.

Ars Technica
Healthy man goes camping—lands in ICU for 40 days with respiratory failure https://arstechni.ca/GKqU #infectiousdiseases #respiratoryfailure #medicalcase #hantavirus #Health
Healthy man goes camping—lands in ICU for 40 days with respiratory failure

The man was in Argentina when he fell ill, but such cases occur in the US, too.

Ars Technica
Novel #Orthohantavirus Associated with #Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Northern #Argentina

Spring cleaning? Watch out for hantavirus
Hantavirus infection is caused by breathing in contaminated airborne particles from the droppings, urine, or saliva of infected deer mice.
#health #virus #cleaning #Canada #Hantavirus #SHA
https://globalnews.ca/news/11150021/spring-cleaning-hantavirus/
Spring cleaning? Watch out for hantavirus

Hantavirus infection is caused by breathing in contaminated airborne particles from the droppings, urine, or saliva of infected deer mice.

Global News
Spring cleaning? Watch out for hantavirus
Hantavirus infection is caused by breathing in contaminated airborne particles from the droppings, urine, or saliva of infected deer mice.
#health #virus #cleaning #Canada #Hantavirus #SHA
https://globalnews.ca/news/11150021/spring-cleaning-hantavirus/
Spring cleaning? Watch out for hantavirus

Hantavirus infection is caused by breathing in contaminated airborne particles from the droppings, urine, or saliva of infected deer mice.

Global News
Spring cleaning? Watch out for hantavirus
Hantavirus infection is caused by breathing in contaminated airborne particles from the droppings, urine, or saliva of infected deer mice.
#health #virus #cleaning #Canada #Hantavirus #SHA
https://globalnews.ca/news/11150021/spring-cleaning-hantavirus/
Spring cleaning? Watch out for hantavirus

Hantavirus infection is caused by breathing in contaminated airborne particles from the droppings, urine, or saliva of infected deer mice.

Global News
Spring cleaning? Watch out for hantavirus
Hantavirus infection is caused by breathing in contaminated airborne particles from the droppings, urine, or saliva of infected deer mice.
#health #virus #cleaning #Canada #Hantavirus #SHA
https://globalnews.ca/news/11150021/spring-cleaning-hantavirus/
Spring cleaning? Watch out for hantavirus

Hantavirus infection is caused by breathing in contaminated airborne particles from the droppings, urine, or saliva of infected deer mice.

Global News