Raina MacIntyre
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221 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard 4 Aug
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We don't have data to say, you know, close contact.
Certainly the last big outbreak of Andes hantavirus in 2018, which was also in Argentina, was
but a different type of the Andes virus.
The Andes virus also has what's called clades.
That was a clade two outbreak.
And this has just been characterised as clade three.
That outbreak in Argentina in 2018, there were 34 cases and there was very clear evidence it was spread through the air.
also became ill that's correct from what i've read the captain assumed it was all you know he was advised it was a non-infectious death and he made an announcement to the passengers that someone had died and that it you know it was from non-infectious causes good morning everybody i'm told by the
He did not raise the possibility of an infectious disease and so a whole lot of passengers condoled with the widow who was potentially, you know, incubating the illness or had infection already.
So the Andes virus causes pneumonia and cardiac complications as well.
So it's a cardiorespiratory syndrome.
It's called Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
It's quite severe and, you know, people have difficulty breathing, but you can also get fluid on the lungs and it's severe enough to cause death in anywhere from 30% to 50% of people with it.
I think we can expect to see more cases popping up in the next couple of weeks, possibly, you know, even in the next month or two.
Because remember, there's been
Other people who've been exposed more recently during medical evacuations and so on, such as in South Africa, there's been healthcare workers, paramedics, passengers on aeroplanes, because some of the people who got infected were on commercial airlines, including the Swiss patient went back to Switzerland and then heard about it on the news.
And
presented with symptoms.
With any travel-related outbreak, there's always the possibility of dispersal around the world.
And the other interesting point is that the cases that tested positive in the US and Spain were asymptomatic at the time they tested positive.
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