What is the new Hantavirus?

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In the heat of the fight And the global spread of Covid-19 (CoVID-19), which is caused by infection with a virus from the coronavirus family, surprised everyone with new news: on Monday, a patient with a virus from the Hantavirus family died suddenly while traveling on a bus in China. This case shocked many people, but we must note that this virus is not a new phenomenon and is not as dangerous as the corona virus.. We will continue to investigate this disease.

What follows is information taken from the summary of the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) website, which is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention affiliated with the HHS of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Hantavirus What is it?

Hantaviruses are a family of viruses that are mainly spread by rodents and can cause various diseases in people around the world. Hantaviruses in the Americas are known as "New World" viruses and may cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Other hantaviruses, known as "Old World" hantaviruses, are mostly found in Europe and Asia and can cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS).

Each hantavirus subspecies has a specific rodent host species and is transmitted to humans mostly through the virus spread by urine, feces, and saliva, and less often by being bitten by an infected host animal. The most important hantavirus in the United States that can cause HPS is the Sin Nombre virus, which is spread by the white-footed mouse (or deer mouse).

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a severe and sometimes fatal respiratory disease in humans caused by infection with hantavirus.

Anyone who comes in contact with rodents carrying Hantavirus is at risk of getting HPS. Rodent infestations in and around the home are the main risk of hantavirus exposure. Even healthy people are at risk of HPS infection if they are exposed to the virus. (albeit in infected areas such as the United States)

To date, no cases of HPS have been reported in the United States in which the virus was transmitted from person to person. In fact, in a study of health care workers who were exposed to patients or samples infected with a related strain of hantavirus (which causes a different disease in humans), none of the workers showed evidence of infection or disease.

In Chile and In Argentina, there have been rare cases of person-to-person transmission in close contact with a patient infected with a type of hantivirus called the Andes virus. Corona Test Registration

Reported cases of hantavirus disease in the United States

Hantavirus infection in the United States

Hantavirus disease surveillance in the United States in 1993 It started as a result of an outbreak of severe respiratory disease in the Four Corners region (a region between the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico). Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) became a nationally significant disease in 1995, and now the National Notable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS) reports cases of fever in a patient with laboratory-confirmed evidence of hantavirus infection. In 2014, the Council of State and local epidemiologists approved a national report of laboratory-acquired hantavirus infections that includes HPS and nonpulmonary hantavirus infection. Non-pulmonary hantavirus cases began to be reported in 2015. (i.e., both New World and Old World diseases were observed in the United States in 2014 and 2015) Hantavirus prevalence in the United States from January to July 2018 Hantavirus prevalence in the United States from January to December 2018 (latest published statistics) Statistics show that although the prevalence of the disease is the size of the fingers of one hand, this disease in the United States United is growing.

Tracing a case of a mysterious disease leading to death in the United States:

The story of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome

In May of 1993, an outbreak of an unexplained lung disease in the southwestern United States occurred in the common area of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah known as the "Four Corners". A young man, who was physically unwell, developed shortness of breath, was taken to a hospital in New Mexico and died very quickly.

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Coronavirus and Hantavirus disease symptoms comparison:

(This is not a CDC source)

Source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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