This usually happens by breathing in the virus, for example when rodent urine and droppings that contain hantavirus are stirred up into the air. The virus can also be caught from a bite from a rodent, such as a rat.
Lorne believes he caught hantavirus from mouse droppings after shaking a rug in his attic.
Christian, like Lorne, had never heard of the hantavirus, but a biologist commissioned by the authorities found a positive sample in his garden, and that his son found a dead mouse in the garden days earlier.
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