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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't hear about the France case being infected on a plane.  Link?

Also, I was under the impression that this strain of hantavirus is endemic in Argentina- it's not a novel thing- and it requires very close contact to spread, like sharing a bed, or sharing food.  So I suppose being right next to someone on the airplane and sharing a drink with them or something could spread it, but I did not think it was very easily transmissible, not airborne or small droplet spread like flu or covid etc. [/quote]

The study that supported human to human transmission reported very close contract - “deep kissing” and sexual contact. And a later systematic review, which is a higher level study, said the first study was flawed in several ways and did not look at other environmental exposure besides close contact. So I think there are a lot of questions marks here and the WHO is dealing with a unicorn case where they need to be cautious, but hantavirus is well known to result in small clusters of infections with no history of large outbreaks.

Hantavirus is not prone to mutation despite being an RNA virus, so that is reassuring as well. I wouldn’t be worried about hantavirus this summer, but a month ago, I would have said the chances of a cluster on a cruise ship was close to zero, so what do I know? Retired ID doc here. [/quote]

Thanks for your expertise!  [/quote]

The study I saw from Argentina said close contact but not to the level of deep kissing.  One of the examples was someone that went to a wedding while ill and gave it to several people there.  Here's a different article, where several medical professionals that assisted ill people were infected -- so I think close contact, but not necessarily deep kissing.  I wouldn't want to be on a dance floor with people coughing and breathing heavily if they had this strain, for instance.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/instance/2627608/pdf/9204298.pdf[/quote]

the article is 30 years old!!!

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