China man dies of Hantavirus
Is it more dangerous than Coronavirus?
Even as the world is seized by the coronavirus epidemic and
facing a catastrophe like never before in a complete lockdown, a Chinese man
dying from the hantavirus has sent new shock waves to the Internet. The man is
said to have traveled on a bus in Yunan province when he died suddenly, and
tests have revealed the presence of the deadly hantavirus, and efforts are
underway to test the remaining 32 co-passengers.
The Hantavirus is actually not new, as the highly shared
Whatsapp community claims, but it already exists. Unlike the coronavirus,
hantavirus is not transmissible from human to human but rather from rodents to
human according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the
United States. If a person touches the urine, saliva, feces or nesting material
of a rat or other rodent and then touches their mouth, nose or eyes, hantavirus
can affect it.
The symptoms of hantavirus are
- · Fever greater than 101◦F, chills, body aches, headaches.
- · Nausea and vomiting and abdominal pain.
- · New rash (faint red spots)
- · A dry cough followed by rapid onset of breathing difficulty.
Although the symptoms are somewhat similar, according to
reports, it is clear that citizens need not fear hantavirus like the raging
coronavirus affecting four lakh people worldwide with a death toll of 16,500 at
the time to write these lines.
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