Keeping an eye out. How we feelin about this one?
Seems like COVID had a similar start.
Except it isn’t a virus and doesn’t transmit in the same way at all.
It sucks for the people who have it, but avoiding rodent droppings shouldn’t be that tough.
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Yeah, it spreads very differently. This is a different ballgame.
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I hope you are correct!!!
You have to come in contact with the mouse poop to get it. Although this variant has shown it can transmit from human to human contact. Apparently you get it very quickly not like covid so you are less likely to go out in public with it not knowing you have it
I guess the only thing that is a concern is that this variant of hantavirus mutates into something that behaves differently and spreads more easily. Unlikely, but possible.
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So apparently it started with a Dutch man that had visited a dump during a bird watching expedition in Argentina and then passed it on to his wife.
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I was sitting here trying to remember what movie that was from, then the second part came up and it clicked.
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That’s a pretty impressive mortality rate of 30-40% and long incubation
period of 1-8 weeks ! HPS and HCPS is bit confusing.
The Andes strain, along with other hantaviruses in the Americas, cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), a severe and often fatal respiratory illness, says Broadhurst.
The incubation period is long, says Debbink. Symptoms of HCPS can take one to eight weeks to appear after exposure.
“The fatality rate of HPS is 30-40%,” says Debbink. There is no specific treatment or cure for HPS, other than supportive care.
The high mortality rate will be why it doesn’t spread fast like covid.
That’s true even if it starts to spread human to humans. It will likely burn itself out.
Covid’s superpower was that it spread easily as many people didn’t even know they had it yet it would literally kill others. It was the perfect storm.
It spread to a flight attendant on one of the planes a cruise passenger was on.
I just don’t trust this CDC or WHO.
They botched Covid by highly overstating its threat to people not most at-risk, and now they seem to be underselling Hantavirus.
Hopefully they get it right this time
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Many of us knew people in the prime of life, with no underlying health issues,
that caught it and died. I trust them more than I do your summary statement.
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Please don’t make this about Covid. We aren’t going there.
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Can you provide a link for that ?
All I’m finding is flight attendant got sick, but later test for the virus was negative.
May be a different incident ?
Same, but I don’t trust too many 3 letter organizations in general.
It was my mistake. I think it was a suspected case but never was confirmed.
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