Human to human hantavirus
Human to human hantavirus The evidence does not match the alarm Dr Clare Craig When severe pneumonia aboard the MV Hondius was attributed to hantavirus this month, the reporting moved quickly from a handful of sick passengers to the claim that a rodent-borne virus had begun spreading efficiently from person to person. There were comparisons with the first weeks of covid, evacuations in biocontainment units, weeks of enforced isolation, and a call from Deborah Birx for routine PCR testing of passengers who had no symptoms at all. The World Health Organization has felt the need to declare in public that this is not the start of another pandemic. As always there are two primary false claims: 1. Human to human transmission – i.e. we are all at risk 2. 30% mortality rate – i.e. we are all going to die Where did the alarm originate? How good is the evidence that hantavirus spreads between people? Hantaviruses spread between rodents, which carry it without illness and shed it for l...