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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLink for the Andres Virus (Hantavirus) sub-reddit.
https://old.reddit.com/r/hantavirus/I would say that I'm not exactly worried at this point, but I am starting to pay attention.
Key points:
4 to 42 day incubation period before symptoms may make contact tracing difficult in the early stages of a potential spread?
> 30 % mortality rate.
Exact mode of transmission seems unclear, nebulous.
A lot of the rhetoric I am reading from "official" sources reminds me a lot of early Covid statements.
We are not prepared for ANY potential pandemic under the current administration.
I don't believe there is a vaccine for this yet.
Again, this is just something I am watching. The above sub-reddit is fairly active, so there are others watching this as well.
If we start hearing more and more about this, the above link will be a good source, as it will provide links to latest information.
LisaL
(47,495 posts)Close prolonged contact is not necessary for transmission. It could be spread by inhalation. I don't know that it qualifies as airborne, but it can be transmitted by air.
We are going to be up the creek without a paddle, with RFKjr in charge of our health care, if this thing gets out in public.
"On the basis of evidence from five reconstructed person-to-person transmission events, the route of infection in secondary cases was possibly through inhalation of droplets or aerosolized virions "
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040
LuckyCharms
(23,056 posts)However, it is curious that a lot of online material is not recognizing this possibility as of yet.
It's the classic fog of uncertainty.
LisaL
(47,495 posts)I remember all the washing of surfaces we were recommended to begin with.
Wiped down groceries for a longgggg time.
LisaL
(47,495 posts)But it certainly is not the main route of covid's transmission.
LuckyCharms
(23,056 posts)But I can remember the absolute terror in this household making sure everything was wiped down to the nth degree.
I can also remember talking our street clothes off in our attached garage before entering the house proper after being in a public place.
Confusion reigned.
wnylib
(26,392 posts)I am wondering at what point infected people are contagious. If they are contagious during that incubation period, they could spread it to several people before they know that they are infected. Imagine how many people an infected person could come in contact with over a period of 6 to 8 weeks, especially if they have a job working with the public or if they travel a lot.
But if they are only infectious after they have symptoms, that would reduce the number of people they could pass it to.
Initech
(109,180 posts)Who knows what they are hiding?
LisaL
(47,495 posts)Or maybe eating roadkill.
wnylib
(26,392 posts)sheshe2
(98,310 posts)Trump is in charge again.
Remember this?
Coronavirus: Outcry after Trump suggests injecting disinfectant as treatment
What did President Trump say?
The study also showed bleach could kill the virus in saliva or respiratory fluids within five minutes and isopropyl alcohol could kill it even more quickly.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177
People are going to die if this becomes active.We will not survive another pandemic with TSF and RFK Jr in charge.
LuckyCharms
(23,056 posts)These guys are real risks.
sheshe2
(98,310 posts)LuckyCharms
(23,056 posts)sheshe2
(98,310 posts)And he said that when he had a few brain cells left.
Pretty frightening if another pandemic occurs with the idiot and the roadkill guy in charge.
Oh boy.
dweller
(28,634 posts)was airborne , but admitted it was to Bob Woodard
so DONT trust anything from these quacks
✌🏻
wnylib
(26,392 posts)about the spread of the Andes hanta virus.
According to this article, info from an outbreak in Chili indicates the window of transmission is one day, on the first day that a fever develops in an infected person. On that day, it is easily transmitted by just brief casual contact like walking past the infected person.
What doctors know about how the Andes hantavirus spreads | CNN https://share.google/3q1ch7Dz6YPBjvQJl