Professor Luke O'Neill
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1,535 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Professor Luke O'Neill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's a simple sentence as to how you can get these diseases from these animal-borne viruses.
And Hanta is a great example.
It mainly lives in rodents.
So it lives in rats and mice.
They're the main species Hanta likes to live in.
And it doesn't kill the rats and mice.
They've got used to it, if you know what I mean.
And they live quite, they probably get a bit sick, but they don't really die.
But when it jumps into a human, from a rat into a human, now it begins to wreak havoc.
And most cases of Hantavirus begin in the rat or the mouse that infects the human.
And the human picks it up, usually from aerosolized sort of bits, shall we call them.
You get things like in urine or in saliva.
I know it's pretty horrible.
Or droppings, right?
Some of that, the virus is in those things.
They dry out a bit and they blow up into the air as aerosols.
And the human then inhales them.
into the lungs and now the virus is inside your lungs and that's exactly what happens with hantavirus.
So usually you catch it from a rat or a mouse.
It's very hard to spread between humans except in the case of what happened on that Hondias ship because there's one member of the hantavirus family
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