Professor Luke O'Neill

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Show Me the Science with Luke O'Neill · The Science of Hantavirus · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

And they realized there's lots of rats and mice in trenches.

And you do see it in trench warfare.

And even way back in World War I, they reckon, there were people coming down with Hantavirus because they were catching it off these rodents that were in trenches.

So you do see it in times of warfare.

And in fact, there's a concern about Ukraine at the moment because that is trench warfare, in case you don't know.

So there's trenches with soldiers in them full of rats and mice.

And there's a worry now that maybe in any trench warfare situation, you see this.

And there have been outbreaks in history, mainly when soldiers in this trench warfare situation, because that's where the rats and mice live.

Now, when you catch it, if you're lucky enough to get it, it's mainly a lung disease in your lungs, pulmonary, and you will begin to feel a bit feverish.

You begin to feel tired.

Any infection does this, of course.

your muscles ache, but then the lungs can get damaged and the symptoms can be respiratory.

A bit like COVID, you can't really breathe properly.

There is, however, a subtype where it gets to your kidneys.

And that can be very dangerous.

You get this hemorrhagic fever, renal syndrome it's called.

Horrible fever, your kidneys pack in and it damages the blood vessels.

The word hemorrhagic means blood begins to appear.

So it's a bit like a horror story.

Ebola has the hemorrhagic feature as well and it's leaky blood vessels.

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