{"id":7313,"date":"2020-03-28T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T08:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2020-03-28T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T08:47:02","slug":"hantavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/hantavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hantavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Health<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.examstocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Hantavirus-All-You-Need-To-Know-About-It-How-It-Spreads.jpg?resize=1040%2C585\" alt=\"Hantavirus All You Need To Know About It &amp; How It Spreads?\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 The death of a person from Yunnan Province who tested positive for the hantavirus.<\/p>\n<p><b>About hantavirus:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The hantaviruses are a family of viruses spread mainly by rodents. A person can get infected if he\/she comes in contact with a rodent that carries the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In the US and Canada, for instance, the Sin Nombre hantavirus carried by the deer mouse is responsible for the majority cases of the hantavirus infection.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The family of viruses is known as \u2018New World hantaviruses\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is the cause of hantavirus pulmonary disease (HPS), a severe respiratory disease. The entre for Disease Control maintains that HPS can be fatal and has a mortality rate of 38 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It remains unclear whether human-to-human transmission of the virus is possible. There have been no reports of human-to-<br \/>\nhuman transmission of hantavirus in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Chile and Argentina, however, have had rare cases, where close contacts of the patient, who was ill with a type of hantavirus called the Andes virus, were also infected.<\/p>\n<p><b>Symptoms:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A person infected with the virus may show symptoms within the first to eighth week after they have been exposed to fresh urine, faeces or the saliva of infected rodents.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Symptoms may include fever, fatigue, muscle aches, headaches, chills and abdominal problems. 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