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What Is Hantavirus
Hantaviruses are a family of viruses spread mainly by rodents and can cause varied disease syndromes in people worldwide.
You need to inhale rodent droppings or be bitten by a rodent to catch it. It can't spread person to person. but Infection with any hantavirus can produce hantavirus disease in people.
Just a low-key PSA that I grew up in an area with Hantavirus present in local rodents (Arizona) and STILL only a few people catch it every year.
Hantaviruses in the Americas are known as “New World” hantaviruses and may cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS).
Hantavirus
The Hantavirus first emerged in 1950s in the American-Korean war in Korea (Hantan river).
It spreads from rat/mice if humans injest their body fluids. Human-human transmission is rare.
There were even vaccines developed for it. Please do not panic, unless you plan to eat rats.
Yes good point! The transmission is not from just “eating rats.” There is also a huge chance of exposure from mouse droppings..”When fresh rodent urine, droppings, or nesting materials are stirred up, tiny droplets containing the virus get into the air.”-CDC
That's because COVID-19 was a new strain of the coronavirus. This hantavirus isn't new. Please think for more than 5 seconds before you spread any misinformation.
Hantavirus is not a single virus. But name given to a group of viruses.
So many virus from this family are there. Again some vaccines are already there; depending upon which virus eg Hantavax. Some Hantavirus vaccine trials are still ongoing.
It can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) and haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS).
There are no documentation of HPS Human to Human transmission. Whereas HFRS Human to Human Transmission are rare. Which means mostly non-contagious.
All sourced from CDC.
