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Another disease outbreak surfaced in China, called Hantavirus just as the world continue to combat the deadly coronavirus.
Hantavirus is a previously known family of viruses and is spread mainly by rodents and can cause varied disease syndromes in people but the cases of person-to-person transmission are rare.
A person from China’s Yunnan Province, who tested positive for hantavirus, died on a chartered bus on Monday, according to a report by the Global Times. The report also added that 32 other passengers of the bus were also tested.
The news, which was reported on Tuesday, has gone viral on social media amid the scare of coronavirus pandemic with thousands of tweets about it but not all of it is true.
Family: Hantaviridae
Scientific name: Hantavirus
Class: Ellioviricetes
Order: Bunyavirales
Rank: Genus
Higher classification: Bunyaviridae
Lower classifications: Sin Nombre
Hantavirus is a previously known family of viruses and is spread mainly by rodents and can cause varied disease syndromes in people but the cases of person-to-person transmission are rare.
A person from China’s Yunnan Province, who tested positive for hantavirus, died on a chartered bus on Monday, according to a report by the Global Times. The report also added that 32 other passengers of the bus were also tested.
The news, which was reported on Tuesday, has gone viral on social media amid the scare of coronavirus pandemic with thousands of tweets about it but not all of it is true.
Family: Hantaviridae
Scientific name: Hantavirus
Class: Ellioviricetes
Order: Bunyavirales
Rank: Genus
Higher classification: Bunyaviridae
Lower classifications: Sin Nombre
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