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Last month, two cactus mice collected in Santee and Valley Center tested positive for hantavirus. It is not uncommon to find hantavirus in wild rodents in San Diego County — this is the 10th detection this year, following 25 detections in and 42 in — but people are rarely exposed to it.
The virus can cause deadly infections in people and there is no vaccine or cure. However people are rarely exposed to it because wild rodents tend to live away from people. People can be exposed to hantavirus when wild rodents shed the virus in their urine, feces and saliva, the matter dries, is stirred into the air and people breathe it in.
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