Gizmodo Colorado officials are asking residents to be mindful of hantavirus infections from the local Sin Nombre strain during spring cleaning. Colorado authorities have logged their first confirmed death from hantavirus since 2024, according to a statement on Monday from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
Officials noted that this new hantavirus case has been traced to a strain endemic to Colorado, Sin Nombre (Spanish for “nameless”), and not the now widely known Andes strain responsible for infecting at least 11 people onboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius and killing three. Unlike the Andes version, which has been primarily recorded in South America, Sin Nombre hantavirus cannot be spread person to person.
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