Hantavirus kills man in China, 32 others tested, report says

[Nat]

A man in China who died on Monday reportedly tested positive for hantavirus, leading officials to test an additional 32 people who had traveled on a bus with him before his death, Global Times reported. The rat-borne illness, which U.S. health officials say cannot be transmitted from person-to-person, is typically passed to patients when they breathe in air contaminated with the virus through rodent droppings.

 

[PGen98]

Oh geez, another chance for paranoia to set in. At least this one can't spread person-to-person, but that it happened at all is horrifying.

 

[Abizaga]

Hantavirus?? There's another one now?!