Video. Expert says hantavirus poses no risk ‘as long as we contain it’

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Expert says hantavirus poses no risk ‘as long as we contain it’

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Professor Luke O’Neill, from Trinity College Dublin, acknowledges the virus situation is “a bit scary” given the mortality rate. But he asks authorities to “reassure” people about its low danger, as it is a known strain of hantavirus, the Andes variant, and it has “not changed”.

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