A deer mouse collected near Mount Laguna last month has tested positive for the potentially deadly hantavirus, San Diego County officials announced Tuesday.
It is not uncommon to find hantavirus in wild rodents in San Diego County -- this is the seventh such detection of the virus in 2023 -- but people are rarely exposed to it because wild rodents tend to live away from humans, officials said. The virus can cause deadly infections in people, and there is no vaccine or cure.
People can be exposed to hantavirus when wild rodents shed the virus in their urine, feces and saliva, after the matter dries, is stirred into the air and people breathe it in.
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