00:00Taiwan has reported a third case of hantavirus as anxiety grows over a perceived surge in local rat numbers.
00:07A 40-year-old man in the northern port city of Jilong is thought to have caught the virus after
00:11being bitten by a rat at work last month.
00:14He has since recovered.
00:15Authorities say all three cases this year had the sole virus variant,
00:19different from the strain that recently killed three people in an outbreak on a Dutch cruise ship.
00:24Doctors say the sole virus variant does not transmit between humans.
00:28Still, they are advising people to avoid contact with surfaces that rats may have touched.
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