Hantavirus infection is a rare but serious viral disease transmitted to humans through contact with infected rodents or their waste. The virus can cause severe respiratory illness (Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome) or kidney disease (Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome).
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Hantaviruses are a family of viruses spread mainly by rodents that can cause varied disease syndromes in humans. Infection occurs primarily through inhalation of virus particles from rodent urine, droppings, or saliva. Two main syndromes affect humans: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) in the Americas and Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS) in Europe and Asia.
Transmitted primarily through inhalation of aerosolized virus particles from rodent urine, droppings, or saliva. Can also spread through rodent bites or touching contaminated materials then touching eyes, nose, or mouth. Rarely spreads person-to-person.
Contagious Period: Not typically contagious person-to-person; transmission occurs from infected rodents
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A passenger from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship has said she is being held in quarantine away from her home against her will and despite the recommendations of a medical review by the CDC.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long decried what he has deemed the overreach of public health measures, signed an order Monday requiring that Angela Perryman remain at a Nebraska quarantine unit despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saying it was safe for her to return to
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An inmate at California's notorious San Quentin prison has exhibited hantavirus symptoms, sparking concerns of a potential outbreak in a superspreader environment.
Hantavirus drew a significant amount of public attention after an outbreak infected several American citizens on the MV Hondius cruise ship traveling around the world.
The prison, Marin County, is still awaiting federal and state testing results to determine if the 38-year-old male inmate has hantavirus, ABC 7 reported.
There have y
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The two residents had been isolated at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) after their return.
SINGAPORE - Two Singapore residents who were being monitored for hantavirus have been released from quarantine after testing negative for the disease.
They completed their quarantine on June 6, the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) said on June 7.
"Both of them are well, and have tested negative for hantavirus, including the Andes virus, before release from quarantine," the agency add
Argentina has said it is expanding its investigation into the origins of the hantavirus outbreak that struck an Atlantic cruise ship last month, sending scientists to trap and test rats in the western province of Mendoza while lab results are pending from the southernmost city of Ushuaia.
Argentine authorities said biologists from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were joining the mission next week in Mendoza.
The rare outbreak on the MV Hondius was caused by th
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Officials in Arizona are warning about the presence of a hantavirus known as "Sin Nombre" following the death of a person infected in the city of Kingman.
A report from the Mohave County Department of Public Health confirmed that a resident had died from the Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) illness.
Officials said the individual's exposure to the virus "could not be determined" and they could not rule out local transmission.
"Although hantavirus is uncommon, awareness and prevention are imp
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Authorities cleared the Hondius for service adding that there is no longer any risk of infection.
A cruise ship that was at the centre of a hantavirus outbreak has been disinfected and is ready to set sail again with passengers, its operator says.
The Hondius is expected to depart on Saturday for the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
From there, it is due to set off on a voyage through the Arctic Ocean, the Dutch cruise line Oceanwide Expeditions said.
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Thirteen people remain at the facility in Nebraska. Those who returned to their home states may be under constant surveillance for three more weeks.
Five Americans who had been quarantining at a medical facility in Omaha for possible hantavirus exposure returned to their home states on Monday, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
They have been placed under constant monitoring. That was a condition that federal officials had put in place before anyone was allowed to leave t
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It is the second confirmed case of the hantavirus in Spain.
A Spaniard placed under quarantine after partaking in a cruise hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has tested positive, the Spanish ministry of health said on Monday.
"The patient was transferred to a high-level isolation unit in the Gomez Ulla hospital, where he will remain hospitalised," the ministry said in a statement.
"This does not change the level of the risk for the general population and does not change the measures of the cu
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Five hospitalized HFRS cases in Penza Oblast — described as the first in the region — signal a potential geographic expansion of hantavirus transmission into an area outside Russia's historically highest-burden Ural–Volga belt, with further cases possible ahead of the typical late-summer incidence peak.
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