transmitted

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A number of cases have been seen in Scotland in the past, involving a different type of hantavirus which can only be transmitted from rodents.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

Research into a 2018 outbreak in the Argentina region of Patagonia, where the Andes strain is endemic, found that most cases were transmitted on the first day an infected person had a fever.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Unlike other infectious respiratory illnesses, hantavirus “infects cells very deep in the lungs, so it’s not as easily transmitted then when someone is speaking or coughing,” Iovine said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

It is the only form of the disease carried by rodents that can be transmitted between humans.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

However, those tropical African crops could never be transmitted across South Africa’s Fish River, beyond which they were stopped by Mediterranean conditions to which they were not adapted.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond