Mouse Caught by Cats Causes Nevada’s 1st Hantavirus Case

A Round Mountain homemaker said Tuesday that a mouse that was caught and killed by her cats was the apparent source of the hantavirus infection, Nevada’s first case, that nearly killed her.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta confirmed that the Round Mountain hantavirus case was the nation’s 46th and only the third outside the Four Corners region of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah, where 26 people have died of the disease.

Mary Servant, 24, said she picked up the dead deer mouse with a washcloth and tossed it in the garbage about three or four weeks before she became ill.