Hantavirus - Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome - Basic info on what you need to know

Hantavirus - Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome - Basic info on what you need 

to know

There's no human-to-human transmission of hantavirus at this stage. Welcome to Tamarinfo. You may have heard in the news a man in China died from an infection with a virus known as hantavirus Yes, you heard different. There is another virus on the agenda.

So this virus originates from rodents like rats who are hosts to the virus.

The virus is also contained inside the feces and urine of the rodent even in the saliva.

And if the virus becomes Airborne, it can be inhaled by human and result in infection.

The virus can also enter through open wounds and also through bite.

The symptoms of hantavirus include

• Fever

• Muscle aches

which occur mainly in the large muscle groups, for example

• The thighs or the back fatigue

is also a common symptom alongside

nausea diarrhea and abdominal pain at a later stage at around 4 to 10 days of infection symptoms of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome may occur which includes

• Coughing shortness of breath

and

• Fluid filling up the lungs

hantavirus pulmonary syndrome has a fatality Leti rate of around 40% There's no vaccination or cure for hantavirus at this stage except for management of symptoms hospital admission early on results in a better prognosis for the patient because with the cases of difficulty in breathing and the longest shoes that it causes having access to oxygen and a ventilator really assists with the respiratory distress.

There's no human-to-human transmission of hantavirus at this stage.

The main passage of infection is

• Breathing in the stood feces particles when the floating around in the air or rodent bites and eating foods, which are contaminated with rodent droppings.

Those who are at risk of hantavirus are those who have invested houses campus or people living near foresti areas and those in close proximity to the rodent population in their day-to-day lives.