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The interesting (and concerning) part is that hantavirus was previously believed not to be transmissible from person to person. But with the recent outbreak, th
by kleiba2 6mo ago
The interesting (and concerning) part is that hantavirus was previously believed not to be transmissible from person to person. But with the recent outbreak, this understanding might have to be updated.
- ilogik 6mo agoit seems to be a different strain (and it's not a new one, I think)
- imalerba 6mo agoThis strain was already known for person to person transmission. In the south of Argentina we had a big outbreak after a sick person went to a birthday party in 2019.
- yread 6mo agoSome party: 34 infected, 11 died, R of 2.12, 18% infected by aerosol, incubation period 9-40 days https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040
- duncd 6mo agoNo, the Andes virus is known to be the only hantavirus that is transmissible from human to human. A South African lab confirmed the British passenger was infected by Andes virus.
- repelsteeltje 6mo agoThere are already news articles kind-of implying that the crew knew better when they told passengers that the disease was not transmissible.
- ahahahahah 6mo agoThis is just not true. From https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040: "was similar to the causative strain (Epilink/96) in the first known person-to-person transmission of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome caused by ANDV, which occurred in El Bolsón, Argentina, in 1996"