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To determine:
Why didn’t doctors treat Atsa with antibiotics, such as penicillin or tetracycline?
Case summary:
Hantavirus a bunyaviridae group of virus which causes acute hantavirus haemorrhagic fever in humans. It is spread by the infected rodents to humans whom come in contact with the contaminated rodent faeces and urine. Sigmodon hispidus a cotton rat is the carrier of the hantavirus. Hantavirus is a single stranded RNA virus. There is no any validated drug to treat hantavirus infection.
To determine:
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome cases are often seen in the years following higher than average rainfall. Why it is so?
Case summary:
Hantavirus a bunyaviridae group of virus which causes acute hantavirus haemorrhagic fever in humans. It is spread by the infected rodents to humans whom come in contact with the contaminated rodent faeces and urine. Sigmodon hispidus a cotton rat is the carrier of the hantavirus. Hantavirus is a single stranded RNA virus. There is no any validated drug to treat hantavirus infection.
To determine:
What was the likely way that epidemiologists showed that the virus was the cause of the pulmonary condition?
Case summary:
Hantavirus a bunyaviridae group of virus which causes acute hantavirus haemorrhagic fever in humans. It is spread by the infected rodents to humans whom come in contact with the contaminated rodent faeces and urine. Sigmodon hispidus a cotton rat is the carrier of the hantavirus. Hantavirus is a single stranded RNA virus. There is no any validated drug to treat hantavirus infection.
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