The hantavirus killed a Chinese man who was travelling on a bus to Shandong.
A Chinese man infected with the rodent-borne hantavirus has died which causes the internet to begin panicking about another global pandemic.
A man who died on a bus in China tested positive for the rodent-borne hantavirus. The authorities has tested the bus' other passengers, prompting fear of another global pandemic.
The hantavirus is carried by rodents and it can cause severe respiratory disease which is similar to coronavirus disease.
The virus is primarily spread through direct contact with infected rodents, not by human-to-human transmission.
Most cases of hantavirus show no evidence of transmitting from human-to-human.
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is spread through "aerosolized virus that is shed in urine, feces, and saliva, and less frequently by a bite from an infected host."
To simplify, to get infection you have to come in contact with an infected rodent. And if you are infected by the virus, you probably wouldn't be able to pass the virus by touching another person, this is according to Mayo Clinic, which states some South American strains of hantavirus of evidence of human-to-human transmission.
Since January 2017, there have only been 728 cases of hantavirus in the US.
If the virus is spread by human-to-human transmission the data would be on higher state but they're not.
The cases from other nations are also very low.
By: Denise Fajardo
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