'Patient Zero' in deadly hantavirus cruise ship outbreak was Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoord

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18. We used to watch birds at landfills

We used to watch vultures at illegal dumps. We used to dump raw chicken to attract vultures and then take our kids to "see the show".

I really don't think hantavirus was on his radar.

Hantavirus and plague are weird. In the US they are endemic to certain areas, but they aren't always active and occurances tend to be sporadic. Hence when they occur, they tend to catch people off-guard.

Plague tends to happen like this "The dead raccoon that we threw away. We're always throwing dead animals away".

My son stayed at an Air BnB in Colorado. It had a rat infestation.

And then we stayed at one in CO. We didn't see rats inside, but once we got in hot tub, we saw them coming inside and outside the house. They were scambling under the hot tub

You never know where these types of things will happen.