Just reported -

Hantavirus kills man in coronavirus-hit China, 32 others tested, report says

https://www.foxnews.com/health/hantavirus-kills-man-coronavirus-hit-china-32-others-tested-report

Hantavirus is something you get from mice.

This is just clickbait. The hantavirus is nothing new, people in the US have been dealing with it for decades. It's fairly uncommon, but certainly nothing we haven't known about. Heck, Forensic Files did an episode on it in the late 90s I think.

I've seen cases on the show, Monsters Inside Me as well.

Hantavirus is most commonly acquired from contact with rodent excrement, bedding, or handling the dead carcasses.

https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/index.html

Gotta stop the paranoia people.

They will eat anything and everything

If food was scarce so would we. Those possum recipes and owl recipes, and crow recipes, left over from the depression are a good example

I have a bunch of rats to skin today. But I'm not to concerned.

According to the article I read Hanta is spread rodent to human and does not go human to human with only a couple documented human to human cases from south america.

The market where Covid-19 started, catered to the Chinese's taste for the exotic, not poor people eating whatever they could. The Chinese enjoy eating strange animals.

Keith

Hantavirus Virus?

Rat's "ear"

I believe Hantavirus was first discovered in a rural hunting camp in northern Pennsylvania. As mentioned it is most commonly contracted through contact with mouse droppings. The easiest way to make sure it doesn't affect you is spray mouse droppings with waters so the virus is not as easily made airborne and use a paper towel to pick it up and dispose.

Just before I went to China back in December, there were also several cases of the Bubonic Plague around Beijing. This was also associated with rat droppings.

There are all sorts of bacteria and viruses around us each and every day. The big thing is making sure your immune system is not stressed which will make most of this harmless to most people.

There are several forms of Hantavirus. One in Asia is known as Korean Hemorrhagic Fever. It’s been quite common in Asia for more that 40 years. KHF is carried in rodent urine. Consequently people who have rodents in and around their homes in Asia are to exposure by inhalation of the dry urine. By the time it got here, some forms of the hantavirus became attenuated. This means it lost much of its power (virulence). Some forms of the virus are found in fleas on rats from the sewers of NYC, Boston, Baltimore and other big cities where there are lots of rats living in the sewers-which come out and feed on spilled garbage around high-rise buildings at night.

In the western US there have been cases of campers being bitten by fleas from rodents and getting a nasty flu like respiratory disease from it. This form of hantavirus has not been attenuated but the numbers who develop the full blown disease are relatively low. As with covid-19, I believe most people who get KHF get a mild disease.

People tend to see China as a developed country like the US. That isn’t quite the case. There are still areas that are without running water to each home; a constant supply of electricity; and so on. I believe it’s still classified as a developing country, and as such it still has diseases and conditions we don’t often see in the west.

The version you are referring to was first discovered in Arizona If I remember right
It was associated with the deer mouse