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Mouse Carrying Potentially Deadly Virus Discovered in San Diego County
By Christina Bravo | Jan 20, 2018

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A virus that can cause deadly infections in people was found in a deer mouse in Santa Ysabel, prompting county officials to remind San Diegans how to properly clean rodent messes.​


A California deer mouse captured in Inaja Memorial Park this month tested positive for hantavirus, a potentially deadly virus with no vaccine or cure, the county’s communications office said. It is the first positive test for the virus this year.

Officials with the county's vector control program routinely capture rodents to test blood samples for hantavirus. It is not unusual to find hantavirus in San Diego County, officials said, but it’s not typically found near people because it is carried by wild mice.

The virus is shed through infected rodent’s saliva, urine and feces. Humans become infected when dried particles become airborne and breathe it in, the county said. Because of this, San Diegans should avoid sweeping or vacuuming rodents’ nests or dropping and instead use a wet-cleaning” method.

Symptoms include severe muscle aches, chills, headaches or dizziness, nausea or vomiting, and difficulty breathing.

There is no vaccine or cure for hantavirus and the disease can create deadly infections in people. About 30 to 40 percent of people who contract the virus die as a result.

To minimize the potential for exposure to the airborne virus, the county said San Diegans should use the following steps to keep wild rodents out of their homes and workplaces:
  • Seal up all external holes in homes, garages and sheds larger than a dime to keep rodents from getting in.
  • Eliminate rodent infestations immediately.
  • Avoid rodent-infested areas and do not stir up dust or materials that may be contaminated with rodent droppings and urine.
  • Do not sweep or vacuum infested areas. Instead, clean up rodent droppings and urine using "wet-cleaning” methods to prevent inhaling the virus
  • Ventilate affected area by opening doors and windows for at least 30 minutes.
  • Use rubber gloves. Spray a 10 percent bleach solution or other disinfectants onto dead rodents, rodent droppings, nests, contaminated traps, and surrounding areas and let the disinfectant stand for at least 15 minutes before cleaning.
  • Clean with a sponge or a mop.
  • Place disinfected rodents and debris into two plastic bags, seal them and discard in the trash.
  • Wash gloves in a bleach solution, then soap and water, and dispose of them using the same double-bag method.
  • Thoroughly wash your hands with soap and water.
The County's Department of Environmental Health has more information on hantavirus here.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/lo...deadly-deer-mouse-Santa-Ysabel-470298953.html
 
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Arkain2K said:
A California deer mouse captured in Inaja Memorial Park this month tested positive for hantavirus, a potentially deadly virus with no vaccine or cure, the county’s communications office said.
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Sounds serious. Biological warfare to some. ISIS, Iran, North Korea involved? Why isn't the whole city quarantined?

 
Hantavirus has been all over the Southwest and California for a long time...but yes, it’s bad stuff. Bleach spray before you clean up mouse poop, folks.
 
Man, you got monkeys in Florida spreading disease and now mice in California doing the same. Southwest, why is there a mice problem in the Southwest? Can't the city of San Diego control the mice population? Why doesn't the rest of the country have this problem?
 
Nuke San Diego from the air. Only way to be sure the rest of us are safe.

oR.

Trump should declare a national emergency and quarantine the entire city. No one LEAVES!
 
Anung Un Rama said:
Probably has to do with the fires, no?
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Now that's an interesting take. Wild mice and all the diseases they carries wandering closer to human population this year because their natural breeding/feeding ground went up in flame. Certainly plausible.
 
Still waiting for the answer. Why is this a Southwest only problem? Does New York keep their city cleaner?

'Fucktards' in California and San Diego in particular. Here, let me help you guys. This is not rocket science.

 
Phr3121 said:
Southwest, why is there a mice problem in the Southwest? Can't the city of San Diego control the mice population? Why doesn't the rest of the country have this problem?
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Phr3121 said:
Still waiting for the answer. Why is this a Southwest only problem? Does New York keep their city cleaner?

'Fucktards' in California and San Diego in particular. Here, let me help you guys. This is not rocket science.

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Because your question is retarded. Too retarded for anyone with access to the World Wide Web.

Do you think the CDC call the New York virus "New York virus" just by randomly throwing a dart onto a U.S map to see which State it lands on?

Reservoir and Reservoir Distributions: United States

All hantaviruses known to cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) are carried by New World rats and mice of the family Muridae, subfamily Sigmodontinae. The subfamily Sigmodontinae contains at least 430 species, which are widespread in North and South America. The rodent hosts of HPS are generally not associated with urban environments, although some species, including the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), and white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), will enter human habitation in rural and suburban areas.

Several hantaviruses that are pathogenic for humans have been identified in the United States. In general, each virus has a single primary rodent host. Other small mammals can be infected as well but are much less likely to transmit the virus to other animals or humans. The deer mouse is the host for Sin Nombre virus (SNV), the primary causative agent of HPS in the United States. The deer mouse is common and widespread in rural areas throughout much of the United States. Although prevalence varies temporally and geographically, on average about 10% of deer mice tested throughout the range of the species show evidence of infection with SNV.

Other hantaviruses associated with sigmodontine rodents and known to cause HPS include New York virus, which is hosted by the white-footed mouse; Black Creek Canal virus, which is hosted by the cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus); and Bayou virus, which is hosted by the rice rat (Oryzomys palustris). Nearly the entire continental United States falls within the range of one or more of these host species. Several other sigmodontine rodent species in the United States are associated with additional hantaviruses that have yet to be implicated in human disease.

Recent studies have confirmed that infected deer mice are present in every habitat type-from desert to alpine tundra, although the prevalence of infection is higher in certain middle-altitude habitats. Surveys of rodents throughout the United States suggest that SNV is distributed in all locations where P. maniculatus is found. Related hantaviruses are also found throughout the geographic range of their rodent carriers. Given that P. maniculatus and P. leucopus are commonly found in the peridomestic setting and typically have higher population densities than other rodents, cases of HPS can be expected to occur throughout the range of these rodent species. Other implicated species, such as S. hispidus and O. palustris, generally do not live in such close proximity to human habitats, and this factor may decrease the probability of human exposure to viruses shed by these rodents.

Lower population density, a lesser propensity for peridomestic encroachment and a narrower geographic and ecologic distribution (and perhaps differing virulence) may explain the lack of human disease associated with hantaviruses (or genetic sequences thought to represent additional hantaviruses) from meadow and California voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus and californicus, respectively), the western harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys megalotis), and the brush mouse (Peromyscus boylii).
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https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/technical/hps/ecology.html
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Arkain2K said:
Because your question is retarded. Too retarded for anyone with access to the World Wide Web.
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Retarded how bright boy? Your link and your post doesn't answer shit. Again, why is 'hantavirus' most predominant in the Southwest United States. Explain to me the data on the map below.

 
New York City Has Genetically Distinct ‘Uptown’ and ‘Downtown’ Rats
A graduate student sequenced rats all over Manhattan, and discovered how the city affects their genetic diversity.
Sarah Zhang | Nov 29, 2017
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New York City is a place where rats climb out of toilets, bite babies in their cribs, crawl on sleeping commuters, take over a Taco Bell restaurant, and drag an entire slice of pizza down the subway stairs. So as Matthew Combs puts it, “Rats in New York, where is there a better place to study them?”

Combs is a graduate student at Fordham University and, like many young people, he came to New York to follow his dreams. His dreams just happened to be studying urban rats. For the past two years, Combs and his colleagues have been trapping and sequencing the DNA of brown rats in Manhattan, producing the most comprehensive genetic portrait yet of the city’s most dominant rodent population.

As a whole, Manhattan’s rats are genetically most similar to those from Western Europe, especially Great Britain and France. They most likely came on ships in the mid-18th century, when New York was still a British colony. Combs was surprised to find Manhattan’s rats so homogenous in origin. New York has been the center of so much trade and immigration, yet the descendants of these Western European rats have held on.

When Combs looked closer, distinct rat subpopulations emerged. Manhattan has two genetically distinguishable groups of rats: the uptown rats and the downtown rats, separated by the geographic barrier that is midtown. It’s not that midtown is rat-free—such a notion is inconceivable—but the commercial district lacks the household trash (aka food) and backyards (aka shelter) that rats like. Since rats tend to move only a few blocks in their lifetimes, the uptown rats and downtown rats don’t mix much.

When the researchers drilled down even deeper, they found that different neighborhoods have their own distinct rats. “If you gave us a rat, we could tell whether it came from the West Village or the East Village,” says Combs. “They’re actually unique little rat neighborhoods.” And the boundaries of rat neighborhoods can fit surprisingly well with human ones.

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Left: a map showing two clusters of rats uptown (black, north of 59th Street) and downtown (white, south of 14 Street). Right: a map showing estimated migration rates of rats. ​


Combs and a team of undergraduate students spent their summers trapping rats—beginning in Inwood at the north tip of Manhattan and working their way south. They got permission from the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, which gave them access to big green spaces like Central Park as well as medians and triangles and little gardens that dot the city. And they asked local residents. “More often than not, they were very, very happy to show us exactly where they had rats.” says Combs. A crowdsourced map of rat sightings also proved very helpful.

Rats, although abundant, are not easily fooled into traps. They’re wary of new objects. To entice them, the bait was a potent combination of peanut butter, bacon, and oats. And the team placed their traps near places where rats had clearly crawled. They looked for rat holes, droppings, chew marks on trash cans, and sebum marks—aka the grease tracks rats leave when they traverse the same path to the garbage over and over again.

For the DNA analysis, Combs cut off an inch or so of the rats’ tails. (Over 200 of these tails are still saved in vials in a lab freezer.) The team also took tissue samples for other researchers interested in studying how rats spread diseases through the urban environment. And some of the rats they skinned and stuffed for the collections of the Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History, where they will join stuffed rats from 100 years ago.

Combs is now writing his dissertation on the ecology of New York’s rats. He’s looking at how a number of characteristics—natural features like parks, social factors like poverty, physical infrastructure like the subway system—account for the spatial distributions of rats in Manhattan.

The point of all this, ultimately, is to help New York manage its rat problem, which is annoying as well as a genuine public-health hazard due to rat-borne diseases. In July, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $32 million war plan against the varmints. The New York Times noted wryly that when it came to rats, “There have been 109 mayors of New York and, it seems, nearly as many mayoral plans to snuff out the scourge. Their collective record is approximately 0-108.”
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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/rats-of-new-york/546959/
 
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TeTe said:
It's just as bad in Chicago. I can't walk through my alley at night without hearing several of them scatter.
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Hearse Lightning said:
I once saw a rat the size of a kangaroo in Chicago.

True story.

Exaggerated a little.
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AgonyandIrony said:
On topic I saw the biggest fucking rat ever in New Orleans, I thought it was a cat.
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Chicago Tops Orkin Top 50 Rattiest Cities List for Third Time
New Orleans and Cincinnati make big moves into top 25​

ATLANTA, Oct. 16, 2017 – Fall temperatures are on the way and so are the rodents. Orkin released its Top 50 Rattiest Cities list today. For the third consecutive ranking, Chicago takes the top spot.

The metro regions are ranked by the number of rodent treatments the company performed from September 15th, 2016 – September 15th, 2017. This ranking includes both residential and commercial treatments.
  1. Chicago
  2. New York
  3. Los Angeles (+1)
  4. San Francisco – Oakland (+1)
  5. Washington, DC (-2)
  6. Philadelphia (+1)
  7. Detroit (+2)
  8. Baltimore (-2)
  9. Seattle – Tacoma
  10. Dallas – Ft. Worth (+4)
  11. Denver (-1)
  12. Minneapolis – St. Paul (-4)
  13. Cleveland – Akron (+2)
  14. Atlanta (+2)
  15. Boston (-3)
  16. Hartford – New Haven (+1)
  17. Portland, OR (+3)
  18. Miami – Ft. Lauderdale (-5)
  19. Indianapolis
  20. Houston (+1)
  21. Milwaukee (+2)
  22. Pittsburgh (-4)
  23. New Orleans (+15)
  24. Cincinnati (+10)
  25. Richmond – Petersburg
  26. Sacramento – Stockton (+6)
  27. Kansas City (+3)
  28. Charlotte (-1)
  29. Norfolk – Portsmouth – Newport News (-5)
  30. Buffalo (-1)
  31. Columbus, OH (+6)
  32. St. Louis (-4)
  33. Raleigh – Durham (-11)
  34. Grand Rapids – Kalamazoo (-1)
  35. San Diego (+12)
  36. Albany – Schenectady (-10)
  37. San Antonio
  38. Tampa – St. Petersburg (-7)
  39. Rochester, NY (-4)
  40. Nashville (-1)
  41. Champaign – Springfield – Decatur
  42. Greenville – Spartanburg (-2)
  43. Memphis
  44. Phoenix (+1)
  45. Syracuse
  46. West Palm Beach (-10)
  47. Orlando – Daytona Beach (-1)
  48. Madison (+1)
  49. Flint – Saginaw (-8)
  50. Green Bay – Appleton (-6)
 
Large concentration of people means lots of garbage equals lots of rats. Oh well, thats life. Rats are an NYC institution. Leave the poor critters alone. They just trying to get back to their families. If the yuppies and hipsters dont like they can move back to Nebrasconsin.
 
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