Medical experts believe that Hantavirus is a disease that affects both the pulmonary region, as well as the kidneys in the long run.
Amidst if this Global Emergency when people are shocked with the deadliness of COVID-19 a Chinese man died after being tested positive for a new kind of virus named the Hantavirus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Hantavirus comes from a family of viruses which are spread largely by rodents and can cause varied diseases in people, resulting in possibility of death. Medical experts believe that Hantavirus is a disease that affects both the pulmonary region, as well as the kidneys in the long run.
As per reports, the virus is not transmitted from human to human, but from rodents carrying the virus with humans. To understand it in a better way, a person who comes in contact with the faeces or urine of a rodent carrying the virus is on a high risk to contract the disease even if he/she is a perfectly healthy individual.
It is being said that symptoms of Hantavirus are almost similar to that of the Coronavirus which includes fever, headache, muscle ache, dizziness and abdominal problems, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea.
Around 50 per cent of all Hantavirus patients experience these symptoms. Late symptoms include lungs fill with fluid and severe breathing issues.
As per medical experts, around 15-20 percent of deer mice are infected with Hantavirus, but it’s rare for humans to contract the disease, mostly because the virus dies shortly after contact with sunlight, and it can’t spread from one person to another.
Each Hantavirus serotype has a specific rodent host species and is spread to people via aerosolized virus that is shed in urine, feces, and saliva, and less frequently by a bite from an infected host.
SOURCE: https://news.abplive.com/
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