Why Andes Virus Worries Scientists.

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]In the case of Andes, this is a bit different because being a human to human transmission, it means that if a person is sick and then gets into close contact with someone else, the second person can get infected by the virus. And that's why it's in a way much scarier than any other hantavirus because we have we need to be more careful about how we handle patient and how we put up a certain type of security measures to prevent the exposure of further of other people.

[00:00:34]>> Yeah, and I think that's a really important point cuz we've heard public health officials right around the world from the US Center for Disease Control to the World Health Organization talk about limited human to human transition. I think this is something that that that people need to understand because you know, the implication is that transmission only occurs under specific conditions or in clusters or that that that reproduction threshold is is is quite low.