Amid coronavirus outbreak, a man in China has died from Hantavirus

Amid coronavirus outbreak, a man in China has died from Hantavirus

CHINA: According to media reports, the man from Yunnan Province died while he was heading back to Shandong Province for work on a bus on Monday. The 32 other people who were on the same bus were also tested for the virus.

According to CDC, "Hantaviruses are a family of viruses spread mainly by rodents and can cause varied disease syndromes in people worldwide. Infection with any hantavirus can produce hantavirus disease in people. Hantaviruses in the Americas are known as "New World" hantaviruses and may cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Other hantaviruses, known as "Old World" hantaviruses, are found mostly in Europe and Asia and may cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS).

Each hantavirus serotype has a specific rodent host species and is spread to people via aerosolized virus that is shed in urine, feces, and saliva, and less frequently by a bite from an infected host. The most important hantavirus in the United States that can cause HPS is the Sin Nombre virus, spread by the deer mouse."

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