Gabriela Emanuel
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 24 Jun
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But when it does spread from one person to the next, you need to be in quite close contact.
So think of a household or a nurse caring for a patient.
Although I should note from one well-documented outbreak in Argentina a few years back, we do know that it has the potential to spread in settings like a birthday party or a funeral.
Scott Weaver of the University of Texas Medical Branch told me that if there are no precautions taken, then one person will spread it to two other people on average.
Compare that with COVID, where the number has changed over time, but it has risen above 10 people.
And for measles, 15 other people get it from one case on average.
So Weaver's confident this hantavirus outbreak can be contained.
Measures like monitoring, masking, handwashing.
And another distinction from COVID, the time between being exposed to the virus and becoming contagious and sick is long, often multiple weeks.
That can be annoying because you have to watch for symptoms, but it gives medical experts time to get a handle on the outbreak.
It's serious.
It's serious.
In this outbreak, we have nine cases so far, three deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
Authorities say in general, between 30 and 40 percent of patients die.
Basically, what happens is their lungs fill up with fluid.
However, that fatality rate is likely significantly lower because many mild cases go undetected.
But it's still a big percentage and there's no vaccine or specific treatment.
And another thing that makes this virus serious is the early symptoms are very generic flu-like symptoms like a fever or muscle aches, meaning it can be hard to know when you need to isolate and get medical attention.
Yeah, so it starts spreading right around the onset of symptoms and in very close contact.
Yet scientists can't say definitively if it's droplets in the air or the virus lives on surfaces.
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