How worried should we be about hantavirus?
Some passengers potentially exposed to hantavirus have already taken flights to numerous countries.
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"This is not Covid, this is not influenza, it spreads very, very differently."
— Dr Maria Van Kerkhove , Academic
"we may need to update the period of isolation depending on what the science tells us."
— Prof Robin May , Academic
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Some passengers potentially exposed to hantavirus have already taken flights to numerous countries.
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