Hantavirus Research Paper

6. Hantavirus – 70, 000 Deaths A Year

Hantavirus is also called as House Mouse Flu. This virus commonly infects rodents but the interesting part is, it does not affect the rodents. Instead, humans are greatly affected by this virus. People get infected by this Hantavirus by getting in contact with rodent urine, feces or saliva. Person infected with this virus shows early symptoms such as headache, fever and myalgia. However, for severe cases of Hantavirus Infection, the early symptoms lead to deadly diseases which include Hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.

Infection of Hantavirus does not literally mean that you’ll get infected once you got in contact with the rodent. Infection only happens

The virus is transmitted to humans through the contaminated female Aedes mosquito bites. Once the virus gets into the body, it circulates for 7 days where the early symptoms occur such as nausea or diarrhea, high fever and muscle and joint pain. However, if this infection gets severe and left untreated, it will put the life of the person at risk due to acute low blood pressure and internal bleeding.

The infection begins with an increase of the body temperature to 41 degrees together with its flu-like signs. However, after few days of fever, symptoms of circulatory failure will emerge. And last, the person infected with Rabies virus may experience state of shock and eventually die within 12-24 hours.

According to World Health Organization, their estimation of the number of people who are in danger of developing dengue fever is already 2.5 million. This dengue fever is the top cause of death in tropical and subtropical countries and this infection recently acquired an epidemic condition in over 100 countries in the world.

There is still no definite treatment and vaccine for this virus but as of now, frequent potential vaccines are being studied, processed and