Wendy Zuckerman
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first heard May 2020
last heard 2 Jul
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And they found that those who had more virus inside their body were more likely to spread the Andes virus to other people.
But what's interesting is that we don't actually know exactly how the virus is spreading from person to person.
Is it through coughing, through breathing, through touching?
Scientists think that generally speaking, you see really close contacts here.
having a higher chance of spreading it to each other so not just someone you're passing at the supermarket say and we know this for example from a study on a cluster of people who got infected in Chile and they found that sexual contact was a big risk factor for spreading it and in particular the paper references deep kissing that was one of the biggest risk factors they found and
And they mentioned deep kissing a lot.
They defined it only as exposure to saliva.
I guess that is what deep kissing is at the heart of it.
Other risk factors in that study were sleeping in the same bed, having sex and being exposed to semen.
And on this point, we found another study from 2023 that tracked a 55-year-old man who got infected with the Andes virus and later recovered.
But get this, almost six years later, traces of the virus could still be found in his semen.
So remember the R-naught from the height of the COVID pandemic.
This is basically the number that scientists calculate to say if you get disease X, how many susceptible people will you pass it on to on average?
And for some diseases, this is super high, like measles.
famous for being incredibly contagious if you're not vaccinated.
It's estimated that if you get it, you could give it to 12 to 18 other people.
This might be partly because hantavirus doesn't seem to hang around in your nose, throat, and lungs in the same way that COVID and influenza does.
You know, where a big breath could push out a bunch of viral particles into the air and, you know, maybe infect the person you're talking to.
Instead, Hantavirus likes to stick around deeper in the cells of our lungs because it really likes those endothelial cells inside our blood vessels.
And the fact that this type of hunter virus doesn't spread that easily from person to person is probably why the largest outbreaks that we've had of it have gotten just a few dozen people sick.
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