droppings

First, hantavirus is a family of viruses that typically spreads to humans from rodent droppings or urine such as when someone inhales particles near infected rodents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

People usually become infected by breathing in air contaminated with virus particles from rodent urine, droppings, or saliva.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

The variant of the hantavirus suspected in both outbreaks is transmitted through the droppings, saliva and urine of the Andean mouse.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

Hantavirus is a rare disease typically transmitted to humans through inhalation of particles contaminated with the urine, droppings or saliva from a rodent.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026

Then they were running another way, running, not to the warren but over the fields in the cold, and Bigwig dropped the berries—blood-red drops, red droppings hard as wire.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams