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'No reason for panic' over Hantavirus as contact tracing underway South African expert
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00:09at this stage there's actually no reason for panic so normally your hantavirus is
00:15not easily transmitted from person to person however there is a specific strain and we call
00:23it the Andes-Hanta virus and it's mainly identified in South America where limited human to human
00:30transmission has previously been documented but again this does not mean we are now dealing with
00:37a new pandemic it just justified careful contact tracing and monitoring of individuals who had
00:43very close contact with these infected patients.
00:53you
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