🚨 TOP DOCTOR WARNS HOW TO SURVIVE HANTAVIRUS — "38% WILL DIE FROM THIS DISEASE"
This resurfaced video from Charles Chiu, MD, PhD at UCSF, is going viral again as people connect it to the recent cruise ship outbreak.
According to him:
Hantavirus does not hit all at once.
It starts quietly, then flips fast.
• Can sit in your body for 1 to 5 weeks with no symptoms
• Begins like a normal flu with fever, fatigue, muscle aches
• Then escalates into cough and shortness of breath
• Can turn into life threatening pneumonia in days
• Roughly 38% fatality rate
But here is what is catching people off guard.
According to Charles Chiu, most hantavirus cases are not spread person to person.
You do not catch it from someone.
You breathe it in.
• Contaminated dust from rodent droppings
• Enclosed spaces like cabins, campsites, storage areas
• Particles you cannot see entering the air
But now the situation is shifting.
In the recent cruise ship outbreak, officials are looking at the Andes strain, one of the only known versions that has shown rare human to human transmission.
That is why the response escalated.
• Passengers treated as high risk contacts
• Close quarters raising concern
• Investigators tracing whether some cases spread between people
So now there are two layers to this.
The original exposure.
And what may happen after.
No warning.
No obvious contact.
One inhale in the wrong place.
And once symptoms hit, timing matters.
Early medical care can dramatically improve survival.
Wait too long and it can spiral fast.
Now people are rewatching this differently.
It is not only about where you have been.
It may also be about who you were around in the wrong environment.
Which is worse… a virus that spreads fast... or something you don’t even notice… until it’s already inside you?
📹: ucsf / jasonbardi
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