Epidemiologist: No Significant Hantavirus Risk for Bulgaria, Focus on Rodent Exposure

A Bulgarian epidemiologist has said there is no reason for concern about hantavirus in the country, stressing that the situation remains limited to a very narrow circle of people linked to a cruise ship outbreak and their close contacts. Speaking to the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), Dr. Petar Markov, an epidemiologist and lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, explained that hantavirus is highly pathogenic, in some cases even more so than the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic....