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Hantavirus is the most searched topic in the
the US and here to answer some of your questions is ABC News medical correspondent Dr. Darian Sutton, an emergency room physician.
And Dr., good morning to you.
Let's let's start with the American passengers who are asymptomatic, who have not tested positive.
Is it safe to let them go home?
And can they fly commercially or should they drive?
>> that's the big question. My personal opinion, they should not fly commercially, but we were told yesterday our medical unit that they would not be flying commercial flights.
But the question that we don't know is how long they will stay in these quarantine units.
Yesterday at the press conference, federal health officials shared that the patients or the passengers, excuse me, would be tested on a regular basis and those passengers that wanted to stay for the 42-day period would be allowed and those passengers who would essentially be allowed to go home would be screened first on a personal risk assessment basis and that seemed to be based on their personal health as well as their ability to safely quarantine at home.
Yeah, and we've been hearing a lot of things.
Initially, we were told that prolonged close contact was required to spread the virus, but there have been some experts who are disputing that a bit.
Yes, there have. You know, but at the end of the day, Robin, being on a boat is close contact enough and this wasn't one of those large cruise liners with 4,000 patients.
This was a a polar exploration boat with about 150 people on board.
We're talking about group excursions, shared close contact.
And we also know that this virus isn't genetically different from the prior Andy strain that we've seen before.
Yesterday, the Spanish health minister shared that the genetic analysis showed that this was there was no mutations that would suggest that this could do something different from what we've seen before.
With that being said, we've had limited relative experience with this virus overall.
There's only been about 900 or so cases in the United States since the 1990s.
So, we're operating on limited data.
Where are we on a vaccine?
Yeah, honestly, personally, George, the idea of a vaccine is far away.
And the biggest problem here is that this is due to a family of viruses, not just one virus.
So, creating a vaccine that can target multiple viruses, it would be quite difficult.
And so, that's why the focus is on quarantine and prevention, and it highlights the importance of public health and disease prevention
that are under immense rest with added funding cuts from the Trump administration.
>> Okay. Dr. Sanyal, thanks very much.
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