Briefing Chat: Hantavirus — what this outbreak reveals about the disease

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This episode discusses the hantavirus outbreak and the uncertainties surrounding the disease's transmission and vaccine development.

In this episode: 00:34 What questions remain about the hantavirus outbreak? Nature: Hantavirus outbreak exposes uncertainty about how disease spreads Nature: There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus: what that means for future outbreaks Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Host: Nature Podcast

Topics covered

• hantavirus
• disease outbreak
• public health
• vaccine development
• disease transmission

Keywords

• hantavirus
• outbreak
• vaccine
• disease spread
• public health

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Organizations: Nature, Springer Nature Limited

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