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Hantavirus: The Next Pandemic We Are Waiting For?
Khan, Abbas; Khan, Mazhar; Ullah, Saeed; Wei, Dong-Qing.
  • Khan A; Department of Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, P.R. China. abbaskhan@sjtu.edu.cn.
  • Khan M; The CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Diseases, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Collaborative Innovation Center of Geneti
  • Ullah S; Saidue group of Teaching Hospital, Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
  • Wei DQ; Department of Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, P.R. China.
Interdiscip Sci ; 13(1): 147-152, 2021 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1042666
ABSTRACT
Hantaviruses, albeit reported more than 40 years ago, are now considered emerging viruses' because of their growing importance as human pathogens. Hantavirus created focal news when the paradoxical spread was reported during the world's pandemic battle of the COVID-19, killing a man in Yunnan province of China, further jeopardizing the existing of the human race on the planet earth. In recent years an increasing number of infections and human-to-human transmission is creating a distressing situation. In this short communication, we have focused on the biology, pathogenesis, immunology, epidemiology and future perspective of the Hantaviruses. Our understandings of hantavirus related pandemics and syndrome are limited, the contributing environmental factors, the cellular and viral dynamics in transmission from natural reservoirs to humans and finally, the virology in humans is quite intricate. Priorities for future research suggest that setting up scientific collaboration, the funding, and encouragement of health ministries and the research institutes should take admirable steps to build an understanding of this virus. Discovering new drugs or other therapeutic molecules such as vaccines takes a longer time. Thus with the recent artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the rifle for impending new medicines should be hastened. Last but not least, a data-sharing platform should be provided where all the researchers should share and make available all the necessary information such as genomics, proteomics, host-factors, and other epigenetics information, which will encourage the research collaboration in the preparation against the Hantaviruses.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Orthohantavirus / Hantavirus Infections / Pandemics Type of study: Observational study Topics: Vaccines Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: Interdiscip Sci Journal subject: Biology Year: 2021 Document Type: Article

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Orthohantavirus / Hantavirus Infections / Pandemics Type of study: Observational study Topics: Vaccines Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: Interdiscip Sci Journal subject: Biology Year: 2021 Document Type: Article