[kleiba2]

The interesting (and concerning) part is that hantavirus was previously believed not to be transmissible from person to person. But with the recent outbreak, this understanding might have to be updated.

[duncd]

No, the Andes virus is known to be the only hantavirus that is transmissible from human to human. A South African lab confirmed the British passenger was infected by Andes virus.

[imalerba]

This strain was already known for person to person transmission. In the south of Argentina we had a big outbreak after a sick person went to a birthday party in 2019.

[yread]

Some party: 34 infected, 11 died, R of 2.12, 18% infected by aerosol, incubation period 9-40 days

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040

[ahahahahah]

This is just not true.

From https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040:

"was similar to the causative strain (Epilink/96) in the first known person-to-person transmission of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome caused by ANDV, which occurred in El Bolsón, Argentina, in 1996"

[repelsteeltje]

There are already news articles kind-of implying that the crew knew better when they told passengers that the disease was not transmissible.

[ilogik]

it seems to be a different strain (and it's not a new one, I think)

[cap11235]

So... hantavirus is transmissible.

[chewbacha]

They all are but generally difficult.

Andes strain is more transmissible but has only been shown to have one super spreader event previously.