कोरोना वायरस संक्रमण से जूझ रहे चीन में हंता वायरस से हुई मौत के बाद
वहां के लोगों में डर का माहौल है। पहले से ही कोरोना से चीन में हजारों
लोगों की मौत हो चुकी है और इस बीच इस हंता वायरस से वहां के यूनान प्रांत
में एक व्यक्ति की मौत के बाद लोगों को इसके महामारी बनने का डर सता रहा
है। दरअसल, हंता वायरस से पीड़ित व्यक्ति काम कर शाडोंग प्रांत से बस से घर
लौट रहा था। उसे हंता वायरस पॉजिटिव पाया गया था। उसकी मौत होने के बाद बस
में सवार अन्य 32 लोगों की भी मेडिकल जांच की गई है। तो क्या हंता वायरस
भी कोरोना वायरस की तरह खतरनाक वायरस है, क्या यह भी बड़े स्तर पर फैल सकता
है?
Even as the coronavirus outbreak takes the world by storm, a number
of other diseases are also rearing their ugly heads. Cases of swine flu
and bird flu have already been reported in India and other countries.
Now, a man from China has tested positive for hantavirus.
China’s Global Times tweeted that the man from Yunnan Province died
while on his way back to Shandong Province for work on a bus on Monday.
The 32 other people on the bus were also tested for the virus.
What exactly is the hantavirus?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
hantaviruses are a family of viruses which are spread mainly by rodents
and can cause varied diseases in people.
| It can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) and haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). The disease is not airborne and can only spread to people if they come in contact with urine, feces, and saliva of rodents and less frequently by a bite from an infected host. man-dies-from-hantavirus-in-china
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Symptoms of hantavirus
Early side effects of HPS incorporate weakness, fever, and muscle throbs, alongside cerebral pains, discombobulation, chills and stomach issues. Whenever left untreated, it can prompt hacking and brevity of breath and can be lethal, with a death pace of 38 percent, as indicated by the CDC.
While the underlying indications of HFRS too continue as before, it can cause low circulatory strain, intense stun, vascular spillage, and intense kidney disappointment.
HPS can’t be given from individual to individual, while HFRS transmission between individuals is amazingly uncommon.
According to the CDC, rat populace control is an essential methodology for forestalling hantavirus contaminations.