See also:

• Eccentricities

• /tag/maladies
• Pain
• Scoliosis -- A deviation in the curve of the spine.

• Cholinergic urticaria -- Itchy hives when hot.

Deer mice hantavirus ∞

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rat-urine-soda-cans/

Another disease passed on through rat urine is hantavirus. It is transmitted to humans through breathing in particles of an infected rodent's urine, droppings or saliva. The virus becomes airborne when excrement dries. Early symptoms mimic the flu and can progress to respiratory failure. Since 1993, 21 deaths in the United States have been blamed on this disease.

I heard of this with deer mice:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20091128025422/www.gov.mb.ca/health/publichealth/cdc/fs/Hantavirusfs.pdf
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100307184558/http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/biosfty/hantavir.htm

• https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/diseases/hantavir.html

Last updated 2020-05-29 at 12:13:07