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<p>EricS wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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.</pre>
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My favorite Leonard Cohen (mis)quote: "there is a crack in
everything, that is how the mice get in"<span
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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).</pre>
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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? <br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> I guess one gets casual, living around mice all the time.
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<p>I can attest (and have at length) to this...</p>
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