What is the new hantavirus?

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

The following is information taken from a summary of the website of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the HHS of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

What is hantavirus?

Hantaviruses are a family of viruses that are spread primarily by rodents and can cause a variety of diseases in people worldwide. Hantaviruses are known in the Americas as "New World" viruses and may cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Other hantaviruses, known as "Old World" hantaviruses (HRSF hantaviruses, (mostly found in Europe and Asia) Hemorrhagic fever with kidney syndrome.

Each hantavirus subspecies has specific rodent host species and is transmitted to humans mostly by virus shed in urine, feces, and saliva, and less commonly by the bite of an infected host animal....The most important hantavirus in the United States that can cause HPS is Sin Nombre virus (spread through institutions)..

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 into contact with Hantavirus-carrying rodents is at risk for HPS.. Rodent contamination in and around the home is the main risk of Hantavirus exposure... Even healthy people are at risk of HPS infection if exposed to the virus.... (Of course, in polluted areas like the United States)

To date, there have been no reported cases of HPS in the United States in which the virus was transmitted from person to person. In fact, in a study of health care workers exposed to patients or specimens 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 Argentina, rare cases of person-to-person transmission have occurred through close contact with a patient with a type of hantivirus called Andean virus.

Reported cases of hantavirus disease in the United States

Hantavirus infection in the United States

Hantavirus disease surveillance in the United States began in 1993 following an outbreak of severe respiratory disease in the Four Corners region (an area between the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico). Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) became a disease of national importance in 1995 and is now monitored through the National Surveillance System (NNDSS). Laboratory-confirmed evidence of hantavirus infection.... In 2014, the state council and local epidemiologists approved a national report of laboratory-confirmed hantavirus infections that includes HPS and non-pulmonary hantavirus infection.... Reporting of non-pulmonary hantavirus cases began in 2015... (i.e., both ((New World)) and ((Old World) disease) in Eilat) in 2014 and 2015. view became)

Statistics show that although the prevalence is the size of the fingers of one hand, the disease is growing in the United States.

Tracing a case of a mysterious fatal disease in the United States:

A story of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome

In May 1993, an outbreak of an unexplained lung disease occurred in the southwestern United States, in the area shared by Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah known as the "Four Corners". quickly.

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