{"id":906476,"date":"2026-05-17T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/what-counts-as-close-contact-why-the-risk-of-hantavirus-transmission-is-tricky-to-define\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:14:31","slug":"what-counts-as-close-contact-why-the-risk-of-hantavirus-transmission-is-tricky-to-define","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/what-counts-as-close-contact-why-the-risk-of-hantavirus-transmission-is-tricky-to-define\/","title":{"rendered":"What counts as &#8216;close contact&#8217;? Why the risk of hantavirus transmission is tricky to define"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Health officials have said the Andes virus implicated in the cruise ship outbreak spreads via &#8220;close contact.&#8221; Live Science spoke to experts about what that means&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/viruses-infections-disease\/what-counts-as-close-contact-why-the-risk-of-hantavirus-transmission-is-tricky-to-define\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Lloyd Kazmierczak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Health officials have said the Andes virus implicated in the cruise ship outbreak spreads via &#8220;close contact.&#8221; Live Science spoke to experts about what that means&#8230;Read MoreLloyd Kazmierczak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":906477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4587,27923,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-906476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-close","8":"category-counts","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}