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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband asked, in regard to the hantavirus, could rodents have come in after… and this is why hantavirus appears? I guess medical examiners may have seen that before? In cases where there has been a delay in discovery? I don’t know, but they would.[/quote] No. Good grief. Do some people not understand basic biology and medicine? Dead people don't contract viruses. Viruses need LIVE CELLS to replicate in humans. They hijack the machinery of the cell, again let me reiterate the [i]living[/i] cell, to replicate. She didn't have hantavirus "sprinkled" on her clothes by marauding rats or something. Medical examiners know what hantavirus pulmonary syndrome looks like. They know what lungs infected by HPS look like, which require the person to have been ALIVE and BREATHING for the virus to get into their lungs and replicate there and kill them. They wouldn't have said she died of it if they did not see the evidence in her lungs and tissues. [/quote] Good grief right back. You’ve answered my question. I didn’t see the part about it being deep in her lungs. That was the only basic question—did rodents appear on the scene later and leave traces. It’s a fair question from someone who didn’t read every single piece. Nowhere did I argue that like the person above ^^ that it is released upon decomposing. What?[/quote] It's not a fair question. It's a ridiculous one. What do you mean, "the part about it being deep in her lungs?" The medical examiner said she died of hantavirus. That's literally what it is. It's like hearing that someone died of AIDS and then being surprised that it affected their immune system. If you think the only evidence of this was "traces" left by nearby rodents, then how exactly do you think she died? You think that she died of something else completely separate, like a massive aneurysm that the medical examiner somehow missed during the autopsy, and that a hantavirus-carrying mouse then came near the body and pooped or something, and this made the medical examiner become confused and guess that she had died of hantavirus just based on that? Like, what is the logic? [/quote]
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