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Hantavirus and COVID: How are they different?
Key takeaways
- Public health experts say the risk to the public remains low, in part because of key differences between the two viruses.
- The virus that causes COVID-19 has an incubation period of about two weeks.
- That increases the amount of time people who may have been exposed to the virus need to monitor for symptoms.
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Public health experts say the risk to the public remains low, in part because of key differences between the two viruses.
The virus that causes COVID-19 has an incubation period of about two weeks. Hantavirus has a much longer incubation period, with the Andes strain having incubated as long as 42 days.
That increases the amount of time people who may have been exposed to the virus need to monitor for symptoms.
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