EricS wrote:
My favorite Leonard Cohen (mis)quote: "there is a crack in everything, that is how the mice get in"Deer mice are everywhere in Santa Fe. If you burn firewood, you clear nests of them out of your woodpile year-round. Often very big ones. And they invade houses, inexorably. I think they have transporters.
I did wonder how likely subclinical infections are, passed off as a flu, etc. might be? The resulting possible immunity is an unknown for me as well. I suspect my lifelong exposure may have yielded some immunity but my aging metabolism and immune system curve has probably crossed the other... maybe I should wear a bleach-infused plague-doctor mask when I bring in firewood or clean my yurt. Or move to a hyper-sterile apartment in a city?A thing I read that is very interesting is that serum tests of rodent breeders apparently show very high incidence of antibodies to hantaviruses. So the 30-50% case fataility rates perhaps apply to those that rise to being symptomatic or those that lead to the pulmonary stage. (I don’t know; trying to reconcile my own confusions.) It may be that sub-clinical infections are much more common, and lead to some level of immunity, like milkmaids didn’t get smallpox (though that is a distinct phenomenon in other respects).
I guess one gets casual, living around mice all the time.
I can attest (and have at length) to this...
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