On hantavirus #ANDV #hantavirus I think the Andes hantavirus data...
Emma Hilton@FondOfBeetles
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May 15, 2026
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On hantavirus #ANDV #hantavirus
I think the Andes hantavirus data is being misread right now.
Claims are circulating that the evidence doesn’t seem to support.
I want to walk through them carefully.
I think the Andes hantavirus data is being misread right now.
Claims are circulating that the evidence doesn’t seem to support.
I want to walk through them carefully.
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So this 1996 El Bolson outbreak is the event that first showed ANDV could transmit human-to-human, I think.
It’s a bit of an outlier regarding the more recent whole-cohort studies, so why?
In 1996, nobody knew HTH transmission of hantavirus was possible. That generates a slightly different care environment than we have decades later, not just with viral illness, but also general precautionary handling of patients for whatever they are there for.
Like, nobody at the time of this outbreak thought it was more than rodent>human. I don’t know how that affects behaviour around patients?
The HCW studies I’ve cited were conducted afterwards, specifically because of it. By then, at minimum, some awareness of HTH existed.
It’s a bit of an outlier regarding the more recent whole-cohort studies, so why?
In 1996, nobody knew HTH transmission of hantavirus was possible. That generates a slightly different care environment than we have decades later, not just with viral illness, but also general precautionary handling of patients for whatever they are there for.
Like, nobody at the time of this outbreak thought it was more than rodent>human. I don’t know how that affects behaviour around patients?
The HCW studies I’ve cited were conducted afterwards, specifically because of it. By then, at minimum, some awareness of HTH existed.
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@_CatintheHat @happyhexer Me too.