Dr. Neil Vora

Hantavirus will spread.

So, you know, in other scenarios in which we've seen people get infected with hantaviruses is that they're living in areas where rodents are also living, right?

Now, maybe someone is then grooming in their house and they're sweeping all these rodent feces.

and you're aerosolizing dust and viral particles at the same time from that feces, and then the person can get infected, right?

So that's one possible route of exposure.

So we don't know for sure how the first person got infection.

Right now, the leading theory is that this person got...

infection while in Argentina birdwatching.

And birdwatching is a very safe activity, but somehow they might have interacted with the feces, for example, of a rodent or rodent urine, maybe got a bite from a rodent, but that's less likely.

And then they got infected.

But this is right now working theory, but it's highly plausible.

Andes virus is the only hantavirus that we know of that spreads from one person to the next.

I want to be very clear.

This current outbreak of Andy's virus, this haunted virus, is not the next pandemic.