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So I'm back again with a Hantavirus worry. I had maybe near a year ago and was going better with anxiety, but here I am. What has caused me all this worry is exposure to mouse droppings. I work for a park system in VA and in the maintenance shop of one of our parks were mouse droppings on some of our counters. Another guy and I were cleaning up around the shop and I know we stirred some stuff up. I picked some items up that had mouse droppings on them. That was maybe 4 weeks ago. Give or take one. Then maybe two weeks ago I was taking a piece of furniture out of my one of my storage units and there was droppings on top of it and I brushed them off and put the furniture in my vehicle. Whats helping me from worrying too much is that I don't know how long the droppings in either area were there. I hadn't been in my storage for weeks, so it's possibly the virus was not active in the droppings anymore. I know the droppings in the Maintenance shop were somewhat recent to us cleaning but I don't know for sure. Also I don't know what type of mouse it was. And the statistics behind how rare it is as well. Whats worrying me is the obvious. I was exposed to mouse droppings. I'm still in a possible "incubation" period for the virus. I've came down with a dry cough that struggling to bring up mucus. From what I've read, people who survived caught it early. I'm worried that I might miss my chance to catch it. Anyone care to help me out here.

Where I live there's a lot of deadly viruses going around; most respiratory diseases. One four year old had no symptoms whatsoever and wasn't sick at all and died in his sleep. Ever since hearing that I've been having so many panic attacks. I'm always afraid I'm going to get it because when I get anxiety my breathing gets shallow, and I can never tell if it's just my anxiety or something worse. I also am having trouble going to sleep because I keep thinking that I could die like that kid did and have no symptoms. Even though the viruses are targeting little kids, I still can't put my fear to rest and it's so hard for me to go to sleep. I keep thinking to myself "what if I never wake up" and "what if my parents try to wake me up in the morning and I don't respond". I can't get these negative thoughts out of my head and I'm petrified of going to sleep, what can I do to stop this fear or at least relieve it?