Professor Michelle Harkins

for hantavirus.

And if you do any quarantining at all, it drops below one.

And once one son or not drops below one, it's not going to be an outbreak.

You're not going to get sustained spread.

So I think we're very fortunate that this virus does not spread easily from person to person.

No, I don't.

You know, we actually have done trapping campaigns in about 25% of the mice in New Mexico carry hantavirus.

Sounds high, but...

Our case rates are really low.

So it's not a very easy virus to transmit.

And that's like a key thing.

It's not easy to get hantavirus.

I actually was bitten by a mouse in my house because my cat chased it in.

And I tried to catch it and release it.

And I was bit by the mouse.

And I was like, great, I'm going to get hanta.

But I did not get hanta.

I got rat bite fever instead.

So here's Anne.

It appears at least from the, you know, scant evidence that we do have from well-analyzed outbreaks, it appears that most of the time transmission, when it's been documented well, it happens and that person is sick.