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The virus spreads to humans through the breathing of air contaminated by urine, feces, and saliva of infected rodents. There is no evidence that this virus can spread through infected humans.

The hantavirus is transmitted by animals such as the deer mice (right picture) and the cotton rat (left picture).

Picture from the CDC