Fear of HantaVIRUS

[maryam]

Today I was at my boyfriends parents house and he's been having a rat problem in his walls and attic for a while now
This horrible smell has been filling the house since yesterday and I'm not sure what it is and where its coming from but my boyfriend had been telling me its prob rat poop in the walls
I didn't see or come in contact with any rat feces or urine but this smell is pungent and its been said to be in dust
It was probably coming from his attic
his dad went in the attic today but didn't clean anything but im scared the dust could have traveled out
I googled rat feces Inhalation and came across HANTAvirus and now i'm fearful of possibly contracting it since the whole down stairs smelled and the dad opened attic and I passed the attic like 10 mins after.
I live in Southern California, Redondo Beach to be exact so I don't think its common but i'm still scared because hantavirus is super deadly
Ugh health anxiety is so annoying

 

[Cuchculan]

I think it would be very rare indeed. No contact with anything. Just a bad smell. I doubt if dust from anything got anywhere near you. The odds would be very slim. I think deep down you kind of know this too. But it is just your anxiety telling you otherwise. In this case go with the logical part of your gut feeling. Not the anxiety part of it.

 

[maryam]

I think it would be very rare indeed. No contact with anything. Just a bad smell. I doubt if dust from anything got anywhere near you. The odds would be very slim. I think deep down you kind of know this too. But it is just your anxiety telling you otherwise. In this case go with the logical part of your gut feeling. Not the anxiety part of it.

Thanks for all your constant support. I appreciate your responses. I read them and fell an overwhelming sense of support and I truly appreciate your logic when I seem to not have any logic of my own. My health anxiety gets worse with stress. as of right now I'm freaking myself out again about something different.