A man in China has reportedly died from the hantavirus, which is one of a family of viruses spread by rodents that can cause disease in humans. The man from Yunnan Province in southwest China was traveling east by bus to Shadong Province, and the 32 other people on board are also being tested for hantavirus, according to the state-run Global Times newspaper as reported by Newsweek on Tuesday.
What is the hantavirus?
This family of diseases is spread mainly by rodents — particularly the deer mouse in the U.S. — and can cause different diseases in people around the world. Each hantavirus has a specific rodent host species. Hantaviruses in the Americas are known as “New World” hantaviruses, and can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), with symptoms including fatigue, fever and muscle ache in early stages, and coughing and shortness of breath later on. Other hantaviruses, known as “Old World” hantaviruses, are mostly seen in Europe and Asia, and can cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), with symptoms including intense headaches, back and abdominal pain, fever, chills, nausea and blurred vision. Both diseases are considered rare, but can be fatal.
How dangerous is it?
Developing HPS (hantavirus pulmonary syndrome) and HFRS (hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome) can be fatal. HPS has a mortality rate of 38%. Depending upon which virus is causing the HFRS, death occurs in less than 1% to as many as 15% of patients. But both of these are also pretty rare, and while some patients have long recovery times of weeks or months, many patients make a full recovery without lasting complications.
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No, not sure. I think hanta related to animals and can not be transmitted by person to person
Viruses that cause hemorrhagic fevers are always a problem. My worry is why the human population cannot stay without animals. Do we really need pets? Cats and dogs are animals and will always be animals. They stray into bushes because that is where they belong. They get bitten by bats and rodents and return to their human owners. They display characteristics never seen before. Their owners lie in bed with them. Then they turn around and complain; run helter-skelter when they are faced with the consequences of their actions. It's sickening. Humans bring all sorts of problems upon themselves. The entire creation groans in pain because of humans. They are most obstinate and irrational.
The viruses that cause hantavirus hemorrhagic fever have not been shown to transfer from person to person, except for Andes virus.For other species of hantavirus, aerosolized rodent excreta or rodent bites are the only known routes of transmission to humans. Similar negative-stranded RNA viruses, such as Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fevers, can be transmitted by contact with infected blood and body fluids, and are known to spread to healthcare workers in African hospitals, but do not transfer readily in a modern hospital setting with the appropriate precautions. Transmission through fomites has not been demonstrated in hantavirus disease in either the hemorrhagic or pulmonary forms. Siku Biology
Chances of hantavirus being pandemic is definitely less than corona virus. Because corona virus is air borne and persons are unaware of its presence. On the other hand hantavirus is transmitted through rats and mice and a person can easily avoid such rodents by not coming in contact with their saliva or excreta.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hantavirus-is-one-thing-you-dont-need-to-worry-about-right-now-as-long-as-you-avoid-contact-with-rodents-2020-03-24
http://healthscienceplus.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-2019-covid-19.html
Well, pandemic can be happened in China, because of wildlife breeding which is more common in their country And you all are familiar to this fact that, this virus only spreads by rodents feces, saliva and urine. Besides this, CDC reported that there is not any vaccine of this virus yet. Even though, person to person transmission of this infection is low, but Chile, Argentina claimed that they have seen few cases. Fewer symptoms of this virus are just like COVID_19 i-e fever, fatigue, muscle ache. In both of these, (HPS, HFRS) we need ventilators and dialysis machine. Though chances of this virus' transmission is low, but it can be more lethal in case of it's mutated forms. Scientists must have to pay their attention to prepare it's vaccine along with COVID_19. People who live in villages must adopt protective measures. People of China should seels up gaps in their house, at work and apartments.
i cant see any chance for being pandemic, most pandemics had a way for transfering by human to human, also this way is closed for hanta, and it is unable to fast growing, and its care is easy, just being far of animals!
There are less chances of hanta virus for being pandemic than corona virus. Hanta virus is caused by rodents, just be sure that not come in contect with rodents faeces and saliva.
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