No, they should not be outlawed ...
Please rethink that, fncceo. See my post on the Four Corners hantavirus above. You decide if its reasonable. The evidence is that if those mammals came in touch with hantavirus, rodents in the area might restart the cycle of mammal-to-human transmission of the deadly disease (50-60% mortality rate if misdiagnosed as a minor respiratory infection or no treatment was sought at all). There may have been a vaccination to prevent the disease for those living in the Four Corners area, but if you read each and every blurb I left, There is evidence the hantavirus had been around in the 50s as well, and Tribal legends (if memory serves me correctly) indicated it was around for generations, and they taught their children to stay away from mice from time immemorial. Can't find a link, I studied pathology of diseases in my health studies in University back when and remembered some of what I studied, I've always been fascinated with the accuracy of tribal and prehistoric legends and sayings. I know, it's trivia... but this trivia was validated by science in the years since the 1993 outbreak.
fnnceo, I don't think you know the difference between a bacteria and a virus, but a condom is not a barrier to a virus that has a vector route in the air around your face. Viri are so tiny they are almost as light as air, plus they have a dna strand that contains a medullary attraction component that may cause it to zero in on the nasal area of a mammal, and in particular, humans. Most STDs are bacterial, so yes, a condom may be an 80% protective agent, but viruses do scary things by comparison. I don't know why that is, I just know that it is so.
We know so little about staying healthy, even if we have studied it for a lifetime and have learned nutritive measures of boosting the immune system. There's just a factor out there that when you're engaging in a dangerous activity, there is a propensity to the adage that if anything can go wrong it will go wrong. I think they call it Murphy's Law.
If you know something is against the law, and you don't know why it is illegal, there's a 99.99999% chance it will not only make you sick, it will make an entire community sick, which could become a regional anathema if not a pandemic.
Facts of life are very tough things.