May 2026

ANDV prevention strategies focus mainly on environmental safety and infection control. 🔬 Key measures include rodent control, ventilation of contaminated spaces, wet-cleaning methods to avoid aerosolization, surface disinfection and PPE use by healthcare workers. Although rare, person-to-person transmission has been reported, meaning isolation of infected individuals may sometimes be necessary. Unlike SARS-CoV-2, no vaccine is […]

On May 18th, Camilla Tincati, MD, PhD, Associate Professor at the University of Milan, presented a scientific talk on Long COVID at the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) at Harvard Medical School. The presentation, entitled “Clinical and Viro-Immunological Determinants of Long COVID: A Journey from the First Wave in Italy to the Biology of

This is the first post in our series comparing key characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and ANDV. 🌍 Understanding how viruses spread is essential for public health preparedness. 🔬 While SARS-CoV-2 spreads efficiently from person to person, Andes virus (ANDV) follows a very different transmission pattern. ANDV is primarily transmitted from rodents to humans through exposure to contaminated