>https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1264603/Coronavirus-latest-updates-hantavirus-viral-ecology-human-infection-climate-change >Professor Rick Douglass is a hantavirus expert, based at Montana State University and Montana Tech. Hantaviruses are a group of diseases that come from rodents and can affect humans, in the Americas they attack the lungs, whilst in Eurasia, they attack the kidneys. In North America, studies have shown the mortality rate is as high as 40 percent >World Health Organisation (WHO) report 100 deaths from hantavirus out of 10,000 cases.