{"id":788,"date":"2026-05-13T07:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:40:16","slug":"serious-disease-hantavirus-less-infectious-than-covid-yet-has-significant-fatality-rate-1-in-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Serious disease&#8217;: Hantavirus less infectious than COVID, yet has significant fatality rate &#8211; 1 in 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annette Young is pleased to welcome Matt McKee, Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. As health authorities race to contain an emerging cluster of hantavirus infections, McKee offers a measured but sobering assessment of the risks, and the lessons the world should have learned from COVID. He warns that hantavirus is \u201ca serious disease\u201d with \u201ca fatality rate of about one in three,\u201d McKee is careful to distinguish it from the coronavirus pandemic, stressing that \u201cit does not spread at anything like the rate that COVID does.\u201d Yet he warns that an unusually specific chain of exposure, from rodent-contaminated landfill sites to what he calls \u201can institutional amplifier\u201d, aboard a confined vessel, created \u201ca very unusual set of circumstances\u201d for transmission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annette Young is pleased to welcome Matt McKee, Professor of European Public Health at the London School of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}