Hantavirus and COVID: How are they different?

(NewsNation) — A hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship has stoked fears of another pandemic, but there are significant differences between hantavirus and COVID-19.

Public health experts say the risk to the public remains low, in part because of key differences between the two viruses.

Here are some of the ways they differ:

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.

COVID-19 and the Andes hantavirus can both be transmitted from human to human.

However, COVID-19 is........

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