Open AccessWill Hantaviruses Pose Yet Another Health Threat?
Author(s) -
G Ashok
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
open access journal of microbiology and biotechnology (oajmb)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2576-7771
DOI - 10.23880/oajmb-16000167
Subject(s) - hantavirus , outbreak , pandemic , disease , virology , hantavirus pulmonary syndrome , covid-19 , global health , biology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , public health , virus , pathology
Amidst the on-going COVID19 pandemic, the report of the death of a man who tested positive for hantavirus in China came as a tweet from ‘Global Times’ in late March 2020. This raised fears throughout the world as another possible disease outbreak. With the large number of hantavirus serotypes reported from various parts of the world, the possibility of a health care threat in the form of a zoonotic disease has to be reviewed. The biology of Hantaviruses and the mechanisms of emergence and host- switching in Hantaviruses are briefly reviewed here.