Hantavirus Doesn’t Spread Easily, but Officials May Be Downplaying Risks (www.nytimes.com)
from Valuy@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 16 May 15:29
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Fishnoodle@lemmy.world on 16 May 15:54 collapse

Just remember how wrong they were with COVID. “It can’t spread through the air! Just droplets!”

Yeah, guess what happens when you sneeze. You aerosolize your contaminated spit, and spread the disease through the air to everyone and surface around you.

From what I’ve heard this strain can live on surfaces for up to 60 days, which is no joke. You don’t have to handle bags of rat droppings or be making out with someone infected to get it.

You touch a contaminated surface that hadn’t been cleaned well, or recently. You get an eye crunchy out of the corner of your eye during your morning coffee, maybe pick a poppy seed from your muffin out of your teeth. Boom your infected.

Also holy shit kids. Touch everything. Then Stick their hand in their mouth. They would totally get sick, then spread it like crazy.