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More dangerous than Coronavirus


China man dies of Hantavirus

Is it more dangerous than Coronavirus?


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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.

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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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