transmitted

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The Andes virus is distinct among hantaviruses for several reasons: It has a long incubation period of one week to eight weeks, it has a higher-than-normal fatality rate and it can be transmitted between humans.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

The World Health Organization said it is possible there was human-to-human transmission of hantavirus on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a rare way the virus typically transmitted by rodents can spread.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Hantavirus, an illness usually transmitted to humans from rodents, has been confirmed in the passenger currently in intensive care in Johannesburg, the operator said.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

But there is one strain of hantavirus — known as the Andes virus — that can be transmitted from human to human, and has been transmitted in Thailand and Argentina.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

In radar astronomy, radio waves are transmitted by a telescope on Earth, strike, say, that hemisphere of Venus that happens to be facing the Earth, and bounce back.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan