Posted on 03/25/2020 7:55:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
March 25 (UPI) -- A man in China has died after testing positive for the hantavirus, according to Chinese state media.
Global Times reported the patient, a migrant worker from southwestern Yunnan Province, died while traveling on a chartered bus to Shandong Province for work on Monday.
There is more than one strain of hantavirus, some more harmful than others, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is no approved cure or vaccine against hantaviruses in the United States. An inoculation may be available in China.
The group of diseases is spread primarily among rodents, and from rodents to humans. Humans may become infected with hantaviruses through contact with rodent urine, saliva or feces. The fatality rate is 36 percent.
Malaysian Chinese-language newspaper China Press reported Wednesday the patient with the surname Tian was traveling on a bus with 30 migrant workers. It is unclear whether they were also infected. When Tian developed a fever, emergency staff may have suspected a case of the novel coronavirus, according to the report.
Southern Metropolis Daily, a Chinese newspaper published in the city of Guangzhou, said Tian's home province of Yunnan has reported a total of 1,231 hantavirus cases from 2015 to 2019. China developed a vaccine against the virus 20 years ago, which may have lowered fatalities, according to reports.
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Coronavorus, the sequil.
They eat rats in China, why are we not surprised..
Oh, Great. Here we go Pt Deux.
No. As it isnt a thing unique to China.
It’s just the media looking for the next thing to sell to idiots.
Hantavirus, golly, we better shut down society entirely now...oh wait...
My cat is trying to give it to me. He brought a fat mouse in the other day. Still alive.
Order more ventilators!
Does it matter if it’s not unique to China?
Just wondering because I don’t know.
1,000 people getting a 36 percent fatality disease is no big deal if you have to swallow the person’s spit to get it.
If it’s airborne, then it is something to follow
China.
The gift that keeps on giving.
When the Chinese pork industry collapsed and the Chinese government refused to import large amounts of American pork to compensate, the people resorted to eating whatever they could find. Rodents and bats to them are simply a protein source for them. When the history of these outbreaks is written, the swine flu pandemic had a big indirect role.
President Xi, Nancy on line one!
exactly.
common in mice and rats
These animal they eat are infected with all sorts of viruses and they say its their tradition So their despicable traditions put the world at risk time and time again
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“Does it matter if it’s not unique to China?”
Yes.
It means it isnt anything new. This story has been posted before, and people said it is a common occurrence especially out west. It’s just that it is now a “sexy” story to run.
Murderer.
China is the source of all evil.
GOTCHA
Thanks :)
Coronavorus, the sequil.
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I don’t think it’s transmissible from human to human.
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