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As if we don't have enough to worry about - BostonCard - 12-02-2020
Time to get ready for the next pandemic.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040?query=TOC
NEJM article that describes person-to-person transmission of Hantavirus in Argentina. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a syndrome caused by a variety of mostly zoonotic viruses (typically transmitted from rodents to humans). You might remember a hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite some years ago.
https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/outbreaks/yosemite/index.html
As luck would have it, one of the patients who succumbed to the virus was a friend of mine from residency. Anyways, this paper describes human-to-human transmission of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome caused by the Andes virus. CFR is estimated at 20 - 50%, so let's hope this one doesn't become a pandemic.
BC