{"id":675,"date":"2026-05-25T05:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=675"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:36:30","slug":"utahns-concerned-about-hantavirus-outbreak-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"Utahns concerned about hantavirus outbreak: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>KEY POINTS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Andes strain can spread between humans, increasing public health worry across demographics.<\/li>\n<li>A new poll shows higher concern about hantavirus in urban settings compared to suburban and rural areas.<\/li>\n<li>Universal precautions are advised when handling rodent droppings to avoid hantavirus infection risks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>News of a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has amped up general anxiety about hantavirus and how it spreads. And a new Deseret News\/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll conducted by Morning Consult shows that though the outbreak was thousands of miles away, the aftermath has raised concerns among Utahns.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=673\">America\u2019s most popular \u2018third place\u2019 for social gathering<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 6 in 10 of the Utah adults polled say they are at least somewhat concerned about the current hantavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>An outbreak of the rare Andes form of hantavirus \u2014 known to be transmissible between humans \u2014 killed three of the passengers on the Hondius cruise ship and sickened many more. <\/p>\n<h3>Utahns\u2019 take on hantavirus risk<\/h3>\n<p>Hantavirus is most often transmitted to humans who come in contact with droppings from an infected rodent. There are different strains caused by different orthohantaviruses, of which the Andes strain is just one.<\/p>\n<p>People are generally at greater risk of contracting a hantavirus disease when they clean out sheds or garages and improperly handle the droppings of infected rodents. That Andes spreads between humans has introduced a new worry.<\/p>\n<p>The poll asked, \u201cHow concerned are you, if at all, about the current hantavirus outbreak?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just 17% said they were \u201cvery concerned,\u201d but another 39% said \u201csomewhat concerned,\u201d raising the number with some degree of worry to 56%. One-fourth responded \u201cnot too concerned,\u201d and another 17% said \u201cnot at all concerned,\u201d mirroring the number for the most concerned group. Just 3% had no opinion.<\/p>\n<p>The poll included 802 registered Utah voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. It was conducted May 15-18.<\/p>\n<p>In the poll, slightly more men (18%) were very concerned, compared to women (15%). Those 65 and older said they were very concerned in larger numbers, at 22%. Among those \u201csomewhat concerned\u201d were men at 40%, women at 37% and older adults at 36%. But the highest share were among those ages 18-34 (42%), while the same was true of 38% of those ages 35 to 64.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=671\">The day the music stopped in the Grand Canyon Lodge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group with the highest \u201cnot at all concerned\u201d response rate were those 35 to 44, at 21%. <\/p>\n<p>There was little difference based on education level. Based on income, just over half of those with incomes between $50,000 and $100,000 were concerned, while numbers were 6 to 7 percentage points higher for those with incomes below or above that range.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest gap in terms of how many are at least somewhat concerned could be found between those in urban, rural and suburban communities. Seventy percent of urbanites were at least somewhat concerned, compared to fewer than half of those in suburban (49%) and rural (43%) communities.<\/p>\n<h3>Where are the cruise ship passengers now?<\/h3>\n<p>Monday, the ship arrived back in The Netherlands after a protracted journey from southern Argentina. <\/p>\n<p>The 18 Americans onboard Hondius are now in the United States in a special quarantine facility in Omaha, Nebraska, where they are supposed to remain until the end of the potential time when symptoms could appear and it might be possible to pass the illness on to other people.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News reported that the greatest risk of symptoms comes in the first three weeks of the incubation, which will end May 31. Those Americans haven\u2019t yet been told if they\u2019ll be allowed to go home after that. A quarantine order said that leaving earlier \u201cwould potentially endanger the public\u2019s health.\u201d One of the orders also said that anyone violating it could face a \u201ccriminal fine or up to a year in jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Related<\/div>\n<div>Could cruise ship passengers take hantavirus home with them<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains the risk to the general public is low in terms of exposure to the Andes strain. But people can get sick and even die from exposure to other strains of hantavirus if they aren\u2019t careful when around rodent droppings.<\/p>\n<p>The advice when cleaning up droppings or areas where rodents could have been is to wear gloves and a mask, spray the area until it\u2019s wet with a bleach solution so the droppings won\u2019t be inhaled and put it in a sealed plastic bag and trash it. Never vacuum up droppings, which can aerosolize them.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=653\">How closely did Utahns follow the Mammoth playoff run?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Join the Conversation<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Looking for comments?<\/div>\n<div>Find comments in their new home! Click the buttons at the top or within the article to view them \u2014 or use the button below for quick access.<\/div>\n<p><button>VIEW COMMENTS<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What causes hantavirus? Can hantavirus spread person to person? How transmissible is hantavirus? 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