Hantavirus Kills Man In China, People Panic On Social Media
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) As a new corona virus destroys the world and its economy, China is apparently witnessing the resurgence of another virus - this time by rodents living in the lower legs of the dark our world.
The Global Times tweeted Tuesday that a person from "Yunnan Province died on the way back to Shandong Province while working on a charter bus on Monday. He tested positive for #hantavirus. 32 others in the buses have been tested. "
The tweet went viral on various social media platforms and people said, "Does the coronavirus need a backup now?"
One user on twitter said, "# I think honestly to move to another planet"
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a serious, sometimes fatal, human respiratory disease caused by infection with hantaviruses.
The first symptoms of HPS are fatigue, fever and muscle pain, especially in the thighs, hips, back and sometimes the shoulders.
An infected person may also experience headache, dizziness, chills, and stomach problems.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hantaviruses are a family of viruses that spread mainly with rodents that can cause various disease syndromes in people around the world.
Hantavirus infection can cause hantavirus disease in humans.
In America, hanta virus are known as the "new world" hantaviruses and can cause HPS (hantavirus pulmonary syndrome). Other hanta-virus, known as "old world" hantaviruses, are particularly common in Europe and Asia and can cause HFRS (hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome).
Each hanta virus sero type has a specific host species of rodents and is spread to human by an aerosol virus released by urine, feces and saliva and less frequently by the bite of an host infected.
Anyone who comes into contact with rodents carrying hantavirus is at risk for HPS. Infection by rodents in and around the home remains the main risk of exposure to Hantavirus. Even healthy people are at risk of getting SPH if they are exposed to the virus.
In Chile and Argentina, rare cases of person-to-person transmission have occurred in close contact with someone sick with a type of hantavirus called the Andean virus, according to the CDC.
However, not everyone was impressed with the news.
"In 1970s the Hanta virus has been around. Human-2-human spread is possible, but very rare. Let is not add fuel to the flame," tweted on Twitter.
