Hotel employee, 26, dies of rare rat-linked virus that killed Gene Hackman’s wife

That is a disgusting hotel and it doesn't surprise me. Sad waste of life.

In 2022 the CDC reported 864 cases of Hantavirus. The death rate is around 35%.

wtf.

I've seen so many DL threads about this virus over the last few weeks that last night I had a dream where I found a rat's nest in my home. (At least, I hope it was a dream.)

Great, bubonic plague is back. Awesome.

Rip he looked hung

It always seems to be out west, why is that?

Left coast vermin have cooties.

The rats will inherit the earth. Them and the cockroaches.

See I turned it into another political thread.

Horrible to die like that in the prime of life

Read the description of how he died, that ain't an easy way to go out and he was only 26!

I live in Mammoth Lakes and found a deer mouse in my bathtub yesterday. Then, my dog alerted in my living room by the couch. Then I found a boot full of dog food that a mouse had stashed there. Let’s just say I’m jittery at this point. One of the three people who recently died of hantavirus was a friend of mine…I’m moving out of this place in June.

Out of your vermin infested home or out of Mammoth Lakes altogether?

Mammoth Mountain Inn Yelp Reviews show 3.5 stars. It's a ski lodge.

Why do some people get it and not 1/2 the staff? How is this spread? Just thru poop? Do you have to get real close to it?

Why do some people get it and not 1/2 the staff? How is this spread? Just thru poop? Do you have to get real close to it?

Is it both rat and mice carrying it or any rodent? Squirrels, gophers?

Willard's revenge!!!

Hanta is super serious. But is mainly confined to New Mexico

The cases I read about in the past involved people who’d been doing things like sweeping out barns - activities where the virus can become airborne and the point of infection is obvious. It’s scary to now hear of all these cases where rodents were simply in the vicinity! I live in the country and there are mice and rats all over the place - because that’s life.

Rattiest cities in the USA.

He’s a bell boy. Doesn’t explain how he got it and not housekeeping….

The randomness is alarming. Old codger Hackman doesn’t get it but his 30 years younger wife dies. Bell boy dies but not check in staff or housekeeping.

Please don't tell me this is going to be big a new thing.

Have you seen the inside pics of Hackmans's house? Kind of on the edge of hoarder but not quite. Piles of stuff everywhere including on top of the dog cage where that dog died of starvation or lack of water.

r12 Small world - my cousin died at Rainbow Falls a few years ago!

I need a dog that can alert on a mouse’s stockpile of food. Mine would just eat it and not say a word.

The reason it happens out west is because of the environmental conditions of dryness that preserve the pathogen. It has adapted to those particular conditions so it can infect when a person is cleaning. The infectious fomites become re activated when a person breathes them in. Sad to see a person that young become infected, he must have breathed a lot of it

The Hackman Effect (we will be hearing about every case of Hanta now).

What's scary about this illness is there's really no way to protect yourself. Even if you know you have rodent activity, you can't walk around with a hazmat suit or even N95 mask all the time.

R9 made me laugh out loud.

I wonder what Michael has to say…

As for the hotel, read the reviews with 1 and 2 stars. And they are recent. It's an outdated shit hole.

That lodge is now going to face a huge lawsuit from the employee’s family.

Safety or Police Officials have already stated the mouse poop found at reception was not enough to be a concern. Sounds like the statement about Gene Hackman's property.

There shouldn't be mouse poop where people are working. Mammoth Mountain is quite far north, it's not Arizona New Mexico.

I read about a man in NJ who died from this...He was cleaning out his basement after a flood. So it's not just confined to the west coast.

Don't fuck with us, we're hardcore.

My brainworm happened to have hantavirus.

R13, I think I’m going to move 45 minutes down the grade to Bishop. Especially since I FOUND ANOTHER FUCKING deer Mouse in my bathtub again today!!!!

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