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30 Things You
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COVID-19 is no less horrifying that now we are getting aware of Hanta Virus that’s taken its form to get into human bodies and create complications.
Hanta Virus Pulmonary Syndrome is a respiratory disease that is caused due to the widespread hantaviruses that attack your body if you come in contact with rodents. Its effects on the body are similar to that of a flu and it can be a threat to life. Any air infected with hantaviruses is dangerous.
Here is everything you need to know about Hanta Virus Pulmonary Syndrome
No 1 - Hantaviruses can attack your body through the urine and droppings of a rodent. The biggest risk is with that of a deer mouse. It is sensible to keep away from all kinds of rodents because treating Hanta Virus Pulmonary Syndrome is not easy.
No 2 – Your body will pass through two stages and after your healthcare provider checks, you will get to know if you have the virus or not. The first stage will be like any other flu and during the second stage, the victim is likely to have a headache, fever, shivering, diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, etc.
No 3 – During the initial phase of this disease you won’t be able to talk about the cause of the virus.
No 4 – Hanta doesn’t damage your body alone, it brings along renal syndrome with hemorrhagic fever as the disease goes out of control. so far. In 1993, this virus got its place in the four corners of Southwestern United States. In 2012, this virus came at the Yosemite National Park due to deer mice.
No 6 – The transmission routes to hantavirus is the urine of rodents, saliva, excreted airborne particles and feces.
No 7 – In the second stage, this virus shows intense symptoms such as secretions while coughing, difficulty in breathing, lungs get accumulated with fluid, blood pressure dips down, and heart rate fluctuates.
No 8 – Hantavirus is not transferred when you come in contact with people, it affects the body through rodents only.
No 9 – The research on whether this virus is contagious or not is still going on. Blame the mixed opinions and different things researchers have analyzed.
No 10 – The virus needs somewhere around 1-5 weeks to show its signs and symptoms on your body.
No 11 – Hantavirus gets severe when your lung tissues are flooded with a fluid that leaks from the lung capillaries
No 12 – The mortality rate of hantavirus is 38% for now.
No 13 – As of now, there is no treatment or vaccine to protect your body from Hanta Virus.
No 14 – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control And Prevention has specialized labs where the hantavirus is tested. The medium for testing hantavirus is through looking at the condition of the lungs through chest X-rays to see if there is a contact with rodents or rodent-contaminated airborne-dust.
No 15 – The people who survive hantavirus will not face further health complications.
No 16 – Researchers have found out that there are 14 other categories within the hantavirus. To name a few, those are the Seoul virus, New York hantavirus, black creek hantavirus, and Sin Nombre.
No 17 – Apart from doing bad to the lungs, hantavirus damages your cells too.
No 18 - Hantavirus live inside rodents and they have a tendency of multiplying in the urine and feces.
No 19 – Around 15% of deer mice have hantavirus in them. This means it isn’t just the deer mice that carries this virus. As such, white-footed, cotton rat and rice rats also carry this virus.
No 20– If you know that a place has hantavirus, avoid being there even if you have to complete the most important task. Having said, it is mostly construction sites or empty buildings that have rats moving around the place.
No 21 – You are at risk of suffering from Hanta Virus if you are camping at a place where there could be rats.
No 22 - By keeping your home covered you can avoid having any direct or indirect contact with rodents. What best you can do is to close every opening or hole in your house through which a rat can easily enter. Do it with cement or use a wire screen.
No 23 – Sometimes it is necessary to do the most basic thing like maintaining hygiene in your surroundings. If you keep dishes unwashed or keep your floors dirty, rats can easily enter. take long for hantavirus affected rodents to come and worsen things for you.
No 25 – It is always good to wet, use a disinfectant or sprinkle bleaching powder on the ground where you witnessed rats moving. By taking this step you can successfully kill the virus.
No 26 – In the worst-case scenario when symptoms go beyond control, the heart and lungs can fail.
History Of Hanta Virus
Let’s look at how old records give us a history of the Hanta Virus.
Studies have found out that hantaviruses are found in musk shrew (Indian Subcontinent), the bank vole (Europe, Russia, Scandinavia), striped field mouse (Russia, China, Korea), yellow-neck mouse (Balkans), Norway rat (worldwide), bandicoot rat (Thailand), among others.
Years back, this disease was known as HFRS. According to the reports, here are some of the details about the history of the Hanta Virus. Take a look!
In 1931 and 1932, in Manchuria, among the Japanese troops, there were people affected. Apart from
this, in Sweden, in 1934 there were similar cases.
Between 1951 to 1954 in Korea, 3200 people suffered from Hanta Virus. This disease lasted in Asia for years.
In 1997, half of the people in China were hospitalized as there were 150,000 to 200,000 cases of HFRS. Similarly, there were thousands of cases in Russia and Korea as well.
What Is WHO saying?
An epidemiological alert was sent by the Argentinian Ministry of Health and Social Development with respect to an increase in the number of cases in Chubut Province.
According to WHO, from 28th October 2018 to 20th January 2019, 11 people died and there were 29 cases tested HPS positive in Chubut province. All this happened in a small place named Epuyén where the population is not more than 2000 people.
As Corona Virus is being addressed, it is equally important to look into hantavirus too. Therefore, hantavirus is affecting the body through a host species that are getting into the urine, feces, and saliva of a rat.
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