Arizona officials warn about spread of potentially fatal hantavirus
WEBJul 23, 2024 · Arizona public health officials are warning that hantavirus, a virus spread by rodents to humans, is causing an increase in a potentially fatal lung syndrome. There have been seven confirmed...
Arizona Health Officials Warn of Uptick in Hantavirus Cases - U.S. News …
WEBWEDNESDAY, July 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Arizona health officials are reporting an increase in hantavirus infections, which are spread by rodents and can cause severe respiratory illness.
Health warning issued as Hauntavirus kills four people in two US …
WEBJul 24, 2024 · Daily Mail Officials have issued a health warning over an incurable rat disease after four people died from the infection this year. Hantavirus — which is fatal in 36 percent of cases — typically causes about 30 cases per year in the US, mostly in western and southwestern areas.
Reported Cases of Hantavirus Disease | Hantavirus | CDC
WEBJun 26, 2024 · As of the end of 2021*, 850 cases of hantavirus disease were reported in the United States since surveillance began in 1993. These were all laboratory-confirmed cases and included HPS and non-pulmonary hantavirus infection.
Arizona Health Officials Warn of Uptick in Hantavirus Cases
WEBJul 24, 2024 · From 2016-2022, there have been 11 hantavirus cases in Arizona, according to state health officials. “Hantavirus is a rare but important cause of serious, even fatal respiratory infection,” Dr. Aaron Glatt, chief of infectious diseases at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in New York, told NBC News.
Urgent call for improved diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines …
WEBApr 30, 2023 · Scientists discuss hantavirus infections, which are a type of viral hemorrhagic fever that can be transmitted to humans through exposure to infected rodents in endemic areas.
About Hantavirus | Hantavirus | CDC - Centers for Disease …
WEBMay 13, 2024 · Hantaviruses are a family of viruses which can cause serious illnesses and death. These viruses cause diseases like hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). They are spread mainly by rodents and are not spread from person-to-person.
Hantavirus Remains Rare, but Potentially Deadly
WEBSep 12, 2012 · JC: Hantavirus infection and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) are rare occurrences; the CDC has reported more than 600 cases in the United States since 1993.
Hantavirus: The Next Pandemic We Are Waiting For? - PMC
WEBJan 24, 2021 · Hantavirus created focal news when the paradoxical spread was reported during the world’s pandemic battle of the COVID-19, killing a man in Yunnan province of China, further jeopardizing the existing of the human race on the planet earth.
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
WEBJan 7, 2022 · Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a rare infectious disease that begins with flu-like symptoms and progresses rapidly to more severe disease. It can lead to life-threatening lung and heart problems. The disease is …
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