The journalist from La Vanguardia specialized in science and health, Josep Corbella, shares with readers the status of the evolution of hantavirus cases detected on the MV Hondius cruise ship. As he emphasizes, this is a virus “that has great difficulty transmitting between people,” so “we can be calm, because there is no risk that hantavirus will spread uncontrollably around the world.”
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“It is a virus whose specialty is transmitting among mice, but once it enters the human body, for it, it is a dead end and its tendency is not to leave, on the contrary, it is to stay in the depths of the blood vessels.” Furthermore, he adds: “What will happen from now on? It is unlikely that there will be more infections.”
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