Gabriella Emanuele

While Hantavirus can cause very serious illness, the risk to the public at large is extremely low.

Among the biggest reasons, Hantavirus does not spread from one person to another that easily.

Scott Weaver is with the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Compare that with COVID, where he says an infected person can now pass it on to more than 10 people.

And for measles, 15 other people get infected from one case on average.

Gabriela Emanuel, NPR News.

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