Sanjay Gupta

And second of all, that narrow infectious window.

Many of these patients that went to the hospital, they may have gone to the hospital at a time when they were no longer contagious.

I will say again that just about every major medical organization, the World Health Organization, CDC, doctors, they're saying that, look, this is not something they are particularly worried about.

And I think for the reasons we just outlined, Dr. Lucille Blumberg, an infectious disease specialist, former deputy director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa, said,

said simply, quote, this is not COVID.

This is really not COVID.

It's not even influenza.

This is an unusual person-to-person event, and it might have happened because of the closed environment on a ship.

Ships are places where viruses can spread.

We know that.

Carlos Del Rio, my colleague at Emory, he says that I tell people that I'd be more concerned about getting in my car or crossing the street and having an accident than getting hantavirus.

Okay?

So hopefully that assuages...

alleviates some of your concerns.

But when we come back, we'll tackle more of your questions.

Okay, I hear that it's time for another question.

Jennifer, what other questions do we have?

OK, symptoms can initially be flu-like, headache, fever.

But as the disease becomes more severe, there are two types of severe illness that it may develop into, depending on the strain of the virus that someone is exposed to.

Certain strains seem to be more prevalent in different parts of the world.