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Michigan woman is state's first confirmed human hantavirus case - Daily Mail
Jun 08, 2021 49 secs

Michigan has confirmed its first case of hantavirus, a potentially deadly respiratory disease spread through contact with infected rodents.

Michigan health officials reported on Monday that a woman from Washtenaw County was 'recently hospitalized with a serious pulmonary illness from Sin Nombre hantavirus,' which was 'likely exposed when cleaning an unoccupied dwelling that contains signs of an active rodent infestation.'.

As of January 2017, there have only been been 728 reported cases of the hantavirus in the United States since health officials began monitoring it in 1993, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Joneigh Khaldun, chief medical executive and chief deputy for health at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

The most common hantavirus in the United States is the Sin Nombre hantavirus, which the Michigan woman was confirmed to have. 

Many of those symptoms echo those for COVID-19, and Khaldun said healthcare providers with a suspected case of hantavirus should contact their local health department to report it and discuss options for testing

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