Will Hantaviruses Pose Yet Another Health Threat?

Authors: Ashok G1*, Joseph CD2 and Geetha I3

DOI: 10.23880/oajmb-16000167

Volume 5, Issue 3

Abstract

Amidst the on-going COVID19 pandemic, the report of the death of a man who tested positive for hantavirus in China came as a tweet from ‘Global Times’ in late March 2020. This raised fears throughout the world as another possible disease outbreak. With the large number of hantavirus serotypes reported from various parts of the world, the possibility of a health care threat in the form of a zoonotic disease has to be reviewed. The biology of Hantaviruses and the mechanisms of emergence and hostswitching in Hantaviruses are briefly reviewed here.

Keywords: Hantavirus; Infectious Diseases; Geographic Distribution; Host-Switching; Zoonotic Viruses; Surveillance

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