Here's a 2020 article from the New England Journal of Medicine, for those who want carefully vetted info on a previous outbreak of #hantavirus.
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Here's a 2020 article from the New England Journal of Medicine, for those who want carefully vetted info on a previous outbreak of #hantavirus.
The high points for me:
* There's person to person transmission.
* Incubation periods ranged from 9 to 40 days.
* Big social gatherings became super-spreader events.
* Contact tracing and quarantine works.1/3
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Here's a 2020 article from the New England Journal of Medicine, for those who want carefully vetted info on a previous outbreak of #hantavirus.
The high points for me:
* There's person to person transmission.
* Incubation periods ranged from 9 to 40 days.
* Big social gatherings became super-spreader events.
* Contact tracing and quarantine works.1/3
"On the basis of evidence from five reconstructed person-to-person transmission events, the route of infection in secondary cases was possibly through inhalation of droplets or aerosolized virions ...."
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"On the basis of evidence from five reconstructed person-to-person transmission events, the route of infection in secondary cases was possibly through inhalation of droplets or aerosolized virions ...."
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"The time of symptom onset is also critical. In 17 of the 33 (52%) secondary transmission events, transmission from an infected person to a contact who later became infected could be accurately established as the day of onset of fever in the primary case, and the first day of fever was the only time during which there was an interaction between these patients."
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