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justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 3 days agoWhat little Ive seen documented:
- It was relatively new(
20 years30 years) to the southern end of South America, they beat out an initial outbreak of it, has been endemic there since. - Not too much reaearch has been done on it, i.e. few experts.
- It appears that it is most, and potentially only infectious when symptoms are showing, particularly the fever, but is very easily spread during that small window.
- It seems like it isnt as easily spread as covid, but yeah, is much nastier.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
There’s kind of two varieties. The Americas one is different to the other and was discovered more recently.
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 3 days ago
Three that I know of.
The Eurasian/African one that is the least dangerous and doesnt transmit human to human.
The continental Americas strain that is pretty dangerous(lethality in the 30-60% range) but doesn't spread human to human.
The new kid on the block, the Andes strain, an offshoot of the Americas one. Last Outbreak was in a small town in Argentina in 2018, first discovered 1995, first human to human 1996. ~40 known infections, 11 deaths. Can spread human to human. It has already been confirmed we are dealing with this one.