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2023-05-04 05:10:00
It is a scenario that is probably taking place in many households: garden sheds are made spring-ready, gardens are dug up, parking spaces are cleared out. Such work stirs up dust – and this dust can transmit a virus that has been spreading mainly in Styria since the 1990s: the Puumala virus. It belongs to the hantavirus group and spreads via a rodent that roams not only in forests and meadows, but also in attics, in barns or huts: the bank vole. She excretes the virus in her faeces and urine, which remains infectious in the dust for up to two weeks – and which humans can inhale.
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