UC Riverside: hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship raises transmission concerns

UC Riverside biomedical scientist Scott Pegan comments that ANDV transmits more readily human-to-human than other hantaviruses but R0 remains under 1 and far below COVID-19. Notes the confined cruise environment facilitated atypical transmission; no approved vaccine exists for New World hantaviruses.

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UC Riverside News

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