Don't worry about hantavirus! (Wait, should we worry about hantavirus?)
Don't worry about hantavirus! (Wait, should we worry about hantavirus?)
- May 13, 2026
- Andrew Noymer, Wen Public Health and CPIP, Orange County Register, May 13, 2026
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Andrew Noymer of Wen Public Health and a CPIP affiliate discusses hantavirus, saying “I am an alarmist. And I am not alarmed.” … The South American strain of hantavirus isn’t new or novel the way COVID was, Noymer said. … And it’s not as super highly crazy contagious as COVID was. “It just doesn’t have pandemic potential.”
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