Hantavirus: Specialist says the 'Andes virus is not as transmissible as other respiratory viruses'

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Virologist Gustavo Palacios, one of the few experts to have worked on this type of outbreak, believes the risk of spread is limited if appropriate measures are taken. He said that infected people and their contacts must be strictly traced and symptomatic patients isolated.