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Prof. Tulio de Oliveira discusses hantavirus, its transmission, symptoms, and health implications.

Prof Tulio De Oliveira explains hantavirus is a well-known virus discovered in 1976, usually transmitted by rodents and associated with farm work or cleaning rodent excrement, with low fatality. He outlines symptoms, including kidney bleeding in some variants and lung fluid leakage leading to pulmonary disease and cardiac arrest in the Andes variant, often starting like flu. Webpage

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Guest: Prof. Tulio de Oliveira

Topics covered

• hantavirus
• health
• disease
• symptoms
• rodents
• pulmonary disease

Keywords

• hantavirus
• rodents
• symptoms
• pulmonary disease
• kidney bleeding
• cardiac arrest
• flu-like symptoms

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