Lorne Warburton had never heard of the hantavirus until three years ago when he was taken to hospital and put on life support, describing the sickness as “torture” and “hell on earth”.
The Canadian, told BBC Outside Source that in March 2023 he started feeling unwell with “Covid-type symptoms, body aches, a chronic headache and fatigue”.
His symptoms quickly developed and he says he was “drenched in sweat and couldn’t breathe”.
After he was connected to a life support machine, he was diagnosed with hantavirus, and spent around three weeks in hospital.
“The degree of illness and sickness that I went through was hell on earth, it was torture, to go through that and to be able to bounce back.”
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