Admin_NHT Staff asked 6 years ago Hantavirus is a viral infection caused by rodents. In Americas Hantavirus known as new worlds may cause Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. In Europe and Asia found that Hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.
- Cause:-Hantavirus is caused by getting into exposure with the saliva and urine of infected rodents.
- Symptoms: – Early symptoms of Hantavirus are fatigue, fever and pain in thigh hip back and shoulder muscle. Headache, dizziness, chills, and abdominal problems like nausea vomiting diarrhea, abdominal pain. After four to ten days of symptoms like coughing, shortness of breath, tightness in the chest and lungs feels like a fluid.
- Treatment: – Diagnosis of Hantavirus is difficult because its symptoms are the same as influenza. The patient with such symptoms immediately concerns the physician and tells him about rodent exposure. There is no specific treatment or vaccination for the Hantavirus infection. An infected patient receives the invasive care and intensive care unit. Patient given oxygen therapy to help him reduce respiratory distress. If a patient feels full respiratory distress then treatment is not working on that patient.