{"id":818336,"date":"2026-07-22T09:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818336\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:57:14","slug":"venezuela-confirms-3-hantavirus-deaths-rules-out-person-to-person-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818336\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela confirms 3 hantavirus deaths, rules out person-to-person transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/61f673e5936c33c947ba82775b7b5db4.jpg\"\/>This file photo shows nurses reviewing a child&#8217;s vaccination card during a free vaccination campaign organized by the health ministry in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 18, 2022. (PHOTO \/ AP) \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CARACAS \u2013 Venezuela&#8217;s Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed three deaths from hantavirus in the northeastern state of Anzoategui, while ruling out evidence of person-to-person transmission in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We report the regrettable deaths of three patients in Anzoategui with confirmed diagnoses of hantavirus,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement. It added that there was &#8220;no scientific evidence of person-to-person transmission in our country,&#8221; noting that the virus is transmitted by rodents in rural and agricultural areas.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyhk.com\/hk\/article\/636332#Venezuela-quake-death-toll-rises-to-4,490-2026-07-13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela quake death toll rises to 4,490<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ministry also said the cases were unrelated to two recent deaths of healthcare workers in the southwestern state of Barinas, whose causes have yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the final results of the investigations would be released in due course. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This file photo shows nurses reviewing a child&#8217;s vaccination card during a free vaccination campaign organized by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,286891,286893,84,286890,286892],"class_list":["post-818336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hantavirus-deaths-in-anzoategui","tag-hantavirus-transmission-by-rodents","tag-health","tag-venezuela-hantavirus-outbreak","tag-venezuela-health-ministry-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}