{"id":22253,"date":"2026-05-08T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22253"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:01:12","slug":"what-is-hantavirus-and-should-you-be-worried-an-epidemiologist-explains-w-katelyn-jetelina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22253","title":{"rendered":"What Is Hantavirus and Should You Be Worried? An Epidemiologist Explains (w\/ Katelyn Jetelina)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hantavirus kills relatively quickly. It comes from rats, but can be spread from human to human by close contact. Although it is deadlier than Covid if you get it, it is easier to contain because it doesn&#8217;t linger in the air for a while and tends to spread by closer contact. The World Health Organization is organizing a global response to contain the virus. Trump left this organization. The US is responding with its CDC, although it&#8217;s not communicating with doctors and the public as much as it should be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virus mutates slowly, so that should help contain it. If it does mutate in a way that makes it spread faster, God help us all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Is Hantavirus and Should You Be Worried? An Epidemiologist Explains (w\/ Katelyn Jetelina)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3skaeNMFvmc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hantavirus kills relatively quickly. It comes from rats, but can be spread from human to human by close contact. Although it is deadlier than Covid if you get it, it is easier to contain because it doesn&#8217;t linger in the air for a while and tends to spread by closer contact. The World Health Organization is organizing a global response to contain the virus. Trump left this organization. The US is responding with its CDC, although it&#8217;s not communicating with doctors and the public as much as it should be. <\/p>\n<p>The virus mutates slowly, so that should help contain it. If it does mutate in a way that makes it spread faster, God help us all. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3skaeNMFvmc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[620,588,409,483,778,221,81,540,170,496,703],"class_list":["post-22253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cdc","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-diseases","tag-donald-trump","tag-health","tag-pandemic","tag-trump","tag-virus","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22255,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions\/22255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}