A Man in China who is Positive with Hantavirus, dies!

Medical Health News- Meanwhile in China, last Monday there was a report on a man who died on his way back to Shandong Province from Yunnan Province. He was tested positive with #hantavirus.

Could this be another pandemic brewing for the world?

According to the Global Times, there were other 32 people on the bus who were also tested for the virus.

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What are HANTAVIRUSES?

Hantaviruses are a family of virus that spread through rodents, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


This news about a new virus starting again in China after news outlets reported no new cases of the COVID-19 at the old epicenter in Wuhan, city in the Hubei Province went on trend after it has been retweeted by twitter users.

But experts would like to clear out that this is not a new virus and it is rarely to be passed between human to human contact. It serves no threat to public health globally.

How it is spread?

According to the CDC, hantavirus cases are rare, and they spread as a result of close contact with rodent urine, droppings or saliva.

In the US, rats or mice may carry this virus and can be transmitted to humans when the latter breathes in the contaminated air.


"The hantaviruses that cause human illness in the United States cannot be transmitted from one person to another," the CDC says on its website. Rare cases in Chile and Argentina have seen person-to-person transmission when a person is in close contact with someone sickened by a type of hantavirus called Andes virus, the CDC says.

Symptoms of hantavirus

-fatigue
-fever
-muscle aches
-headache
-dizziness
-chills
-abdominal problems

When one experienced such symptoms, he should get medical care right way, else it is fatal. According to CDC, fatality rate of caused by hantavirus is at 38%.

When patients are not managed well, it could lead to low blood pressure, acute shock, vascular leakage, and acute kidney failure.

HPS can't be passed on from person to person, while HFRS transmission between people is extremely rare.

As per the CDC, the most basic strategy to combat infections is to control the population of rodents (rats, mice).

Based on the data gathered by CDC in years 1993 to 2018, there were only 728 confirmed positive cases of hantavirus infections in the US. Mostly, it is non-fatal.

The disease is not airborne and can only spread to people if they come in contact with urine, feces, and saliva of rodents and less frequently by a bite from an infected host.

“There is no specific treatment, cure, or vaccine for hantavirus infection,” the CDC warned, saying patients often need intensive care to “help them through the period of severe respiratory distress.”


Curated Sources:

usatoday.com
nypost.com
firstpost.com