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Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), also called hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS), is a severe respiratory disease caused by hantaviruses. The main features of illness are microvascular leakage and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Symptoms occur anywhere from 1 to 8 weeks after exposure to the virus and come in three distinct phases.
The Hantavirus Study Group found eighteen people who had either serologic or PCR evidence of infection, most of them young adults. Physical examination of these people showed fever, rapid and shallow breathing , an abnormally fast heart rate (tachycardia), and low blood pressure (hypotension). Severe pulmonary edema was near-ubiquitous.
Transmission to humans occurs mainly through the inhalation of aerosols that contain mouse salivas, urine, or feces. [5] [6] Transmission can also occur through consumption of contaminated food, bites, and scratches. [4] Human-to-human transmission of Andes virus was first claimed to be a part of a 1996 outbreak in southern Argentina.
Humans can become infected by inhaling aerosols that contain rodent saliva, urine, or feces, as well as through bites and scratches. In humans, infection leads to HPS, an illness characterized by an early phase of mild and moderate symptoms such as fever, headache, and fatigue, followed by sudden respiratory failure.
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. Arizona officials warning about ...
There is currently a hantavirus vaccine that protects humans against hantavirus infections. The first vaccine was developed in 1990, and was initially used to fight the Hantaan River virus, which causes one of the most severe forms of Hantavirus Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). [ 12 ]
Morgan said if a “hantavirus season” exists in New Mexico, it likely would be considered spring and summer — a time when the number of rodents increases and residents are more likely to find ...
This is mainly because they have lots of overlapping physical symptoms, like rapid heart rate, dizziness, fatigue, and brain fog, which can make it hard to tell the difference between the two.