One person dies of Hantavirus infection in China, 32 people under observation
Beijing/IBNS: Even as the world grapples to contain the novel coronavirus menace, China has reported a death from Hantavirus.
China's Global Times said that a man from Yunnan province succumbed to the infection on Monday while on his way to Shandong Province.
The 32 other people who were travelling in the same bus test were being tested.
Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said the disease is not air-borne and can spread only by the feces, urine and saliva of rodents or by a bite of an infected host.
The organisation said that the early symptoms of HPS are fatigue, fever, muscle pain, headache, chill, dizziness accompanied by abdominal problems.
The disease can't be passed from one person to another, CDC has said.
With a mortality rate of 38%, the disease is has raised new concern for China which had just started to emerge from novel Coronavirus pandemic.
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