{"id":7177,"date":"2024-07-24T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T18:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2024-07-24T13:03:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T18:03:56","slug":"health-warning-issued-as-hauntavirus-kills-four-people-in-two-us-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/24\/health-warning-issued-as-hauntavirus-kills-four-people-in-two-us-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Health warning issued as Hauntavirus kills four people in two US states"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-13667837\/health-warning-issued-hantavirus-rat-disease-kills-people-arizona-california.html\">Daily Mail<\/a> Officials have issued a health warning over an incurable rat disease after four people died from the infection this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hantavirus \u2014 which is fatal in 36 percent of cases \u2014 typically causes about 30 cases per year in the US, mostly in western and southwestern areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But some states are now recording a surge in the disease. Recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-13218857\/climate-change-virus-fungi-bacteria-world-infection-chaos.html\">extreme temperatures<\/a>&nbsp;coupled with heavy rainfall are thought to be fueling an uptick in infections in some areas, as these lead virus-carrying rodents to seek shelter from heat and rain indoors \u2014 where they come into contact with humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The heavy rain can also boost plant growth and the food supply for rodents, leading to more rodent activit and, later, a possible surge in their population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arizona health officials said: &#8216;Hantavirus is a severe and sometimes fatal respiratory illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-13667837\/health-warning-issued-hantavirus-rat-disease-kills-people-arizona-california.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Mail Officials have issued a health warning over an incurable rat disease after four people died from the infection this year. Hantavirus \u2014 which is fatal in 36 percent of cases \u2014 typically causes about 30 cases per year in the US, mostly in western and southwestern areas. But some states are now recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-haunta-virus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7178,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/7178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}