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Hantavirus Is Not the Next Covid, But Try Telling That to the News Media

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I fact-checked the claim that hantavirus is “the next Covid.” After looking at information from the CDC and other trusted health sources I think that this claim is exaggerated and not true. Hantavirus is a rare disease that usually spreads through contact with infected rodents and is not easily spread from person to person like Covid-19. Health experts do say it can still be dangerous but it is not considered likely to become a worldwide pandemic like Covid. So I find this claim to be false.

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