Man Dies Of Hantavirus On A Bus In China

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#31
This was kinda interstin.......

Sin Nombre orthohantavirus (SNV) (from Spanish, meaning "without a name") is the prototypical etiologic agent of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS).[1]

Discovered in 1993 near the Canyon del Muerte on the Navajo Reservation, it was originally named the Muerto Canyon hantavirus, in keeping with the convention for naming new pathogens.[2] However, the Navajo Nation objected to the name in 1994.[3] It was also near the Four Corners point in the United States, so the virologists then tried naming it the "Four Corners virus". The name was changed after local residents raised objections.[4] In frustration, the virologists changed it to Sin Nombre, meaning "without a name" in Spanish.
 
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#37
From my memory this virus is contracted from breathing in dust particles from mice/rat infested places. It is not transmittable from human to human. This thing popped up in the desert southwest several years ago from people cleaning out old sheds that had mice droppings everywhere.
 

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