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Hantavirus Poses Little Risk to Healthcare Workers

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 3rd, 1996

Hantavirus does not appear to be a threat to healthcare workers treating patients with the disease, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The respiratory distress syndrome caused by the previously unknown hantavirus Sin Nombre virus (SNV) first made the news in the spring of 1993 when several otherwise healthy people living in the southwestern United States died. The syndrome was named hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS).

"Transmission of hantaviruses to humans usually occurs via inhalation of aerosolized rodent excreta; person-to-person spread has never been conclusively demonstrated," researcher...

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