Old World vs New World Viruses Explained

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]You you talked about old world and new world viruses. That can sound quite uh interesting and certainly intriguing.

[00:00:06]Can you talk to us about the difference between old world and and new world viruses?

[00:00:11]>> Yeah, absolutely. So, when we talk about new world hantaviruses or new world viruses, we refer to virus that we found in the Americas. While old world, we refer to viruses that we found in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

[00:00:25]And for in the case of hantaviruses, it has been shown the new world hantavirus is called causes something called hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, which is what unfortunately people on the cruise have been affected by. While in the old world, hantaviruses cause something called hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.

[00:00:45]And that also shows us just in the name that these viruses, the disease they cause affects different type of the human body.