Dr. Michael Osterholm on Hantavirus: ‘Right Now You Can Manage the Individuals Who Have Been Exposed Very Simply’

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OSTERHOLM: “Right. Right now, you can manage the individuals who’ve been exposed very simply by asking them twice a day, are you experiencing any kind of a fever? And then take the temperature. Do you have any symptoms? If somebody is identified right at that point, you can put basically an N95 mask on and stop all transmission. So this is why we don’t need this high-tech, you know, containment facilities, et cetera, to monitor these people. We can monitor them very simply.”