Woman Contracts Hantavirus From Filthy Home Featured on Popular TV Show

By Gant Daily

Woman Contracts Hantavirus From Filthy Home Featured on Popular TV Show

September 11, 2012 Updated Sep 11, 2012 at 9:50 AM PDT

A hoarder’s home outside Houston is suspected to be harboring the deadly hantavirus after a woman who cleaned the house that will be featured in the TLC reality show “Hoarding: Buried Alive” contracted the disease.

The Woodlands, Texas home had been secured and quarantined last week may have also exposed 30 other members of the film and cleanup crew who had been in and out of the place, according to reports.

The woman tested positive for the rodent-borne hantavirus is said to be recovering after getting medication and staying at a hospital. The state health department will test her again to confirm if she has the virus that leads to difficulty in breathing and can sometimes be fatal.

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