2026年5月8日 / 美国东部时间晚上9:55 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
24年前，亚利桑那州摄影记者吉尔伯特·赫尔梅尼奥（Gilbert Zermeño）因感染汉坦病毒痛失母亲和妹妹，如今他表示，听闻近期的疫情暴发消息实在让人难以释怀。
“我想，每一位曾感染汉坦病毒且至今仍受后遗症困扰的人，应该都和我有同样的感受，”赫尔梅尼奥在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻《每日报道》栏目采访时说道，“往事会涌上心头，如今这份痛苦丝毫不亚于当年。这真的很难受，我不会撒谎。”
2002年，赫尔梅尼奥在母亲和妹妹去世后，清理了她们在得克萨斯州的家，随后确诊感染汉坦病毒。他曾接触过鼠类粪便并因此感染，在凤凰城的一家医院住院数天。
全球卫生官员正在密切关注与一艘悬挂荷兰国旗的邮轮相关的致命汉坦病毒疫情，目前已有9例确诊或疑似病例，其中包括3例死亡病例。
赫尔梅尼奥认为，由于“病毒”一词本身的敏感性，网络上关于这种疾病的错误信息已经引发了部分公众的恐慌。
“但我今天想告诉大家，先做些研究吧，因为它远没有新冠疫情那么可怕，”赫尔梅尼奥说道。
佛得角世界卫生组织代表安·林德斯特伦（Ann Lindstrand）周二对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，鉴于人际传播的可能性极低，不存在大流行级别的威胁。美国疾病控制与预防中心
美国疾病控制与预防中心代理主任杰伊·巴塔查里亚（Dr. Jay Bhattacharya）周三在一份声明中表示，汉坦病毒“不会通过无症状人群传播，传播需要密切接触，对美国公众的风险极低”。
赫尔梅尼奥称，他的母亲和妹妹最初被误诊，医生起初说两人死于败血症，后来才确定是汉坦病毒。他表示，这种疾病的罕见性让自己的诊断和治疗过程变得复杂，但借助医学界亲属的帮助，他最终得到了正确的诊断。
“听从医疗专业人员的建议，如果你感觉自己接触过汉坦病毒，或是接触过汉坦病毒感染者，一定要做好应对准备，”赫尔梅尼奥说道，“人与人之间传播这种病毒的可能性微乎其微。”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/man-who-survived-hantavirus-but-lost-mom-and-sister-describes-experience/
Arizona man who survived hantavirus 24 years ago, but lost mom and sister, says recent outbreak is “hard” to process
May 8, 2026 / 9:55 PM EDT / CBS News
Twenty-four years ago, Arizona photojournalist Gilbert Zermeño, who contracted hantavirus after losing both his mother and sister to the illness, says news of the recent outbreak has been hard to process.
“I imagine I got the same feeling that every person who’s ever contracted hantavirus and still deals with the effects afterwards of it,” Zermeño told CBS News’ “The Daily Report.” “It takes you back, and it’s no less painful now than it was back then. It’s hard. I’m not going to lie.”
In 2002, Zermeño found out he contracted hantavirus after cleaning the family house in Texas following the death of his mother and sister. He had been exposed to rodent droppings and became infected and spent several days in a Phoenix hospital.
Health officials around the world are monitoring the deadly hantavirus outbreak linked to a Dutch-flagged cruise ship that has caused nine confirmed or suspected cases, including three deaths.
Zermeño believes online misinformation about the illness has panicked some of the public because of the word “virus.”
“But I’m here to just tell people, look, you need to do some research on this because it’s not as scary as COVID-19 was,” Zermeño said.
Ann Lindstrand, a World Health Organization representative in Cape Verde, told CBS News Tuesday that there was no risk of a pandemic-level threat given the low likelihood of human-to-human transmission. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
In a statement Wednesday, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, acting director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that hantavirus “is not spread by people without symptoms, transmission requires close contact, and the risk to the American public is very low.”
Zermeño says his mother and sister were initially misdiagnosed, and doctors initially said the two died of sepsis, but later determined it was hantavirus. He said the rarity of the illness complicated his own diagnosis and treatment, but with the help of family members in the medical community, he was able to get a proper diagnosis.
“Listen to your medical professionals and have a plan in the event that you do feel that you were exposed to the hantavirus or to someone who had hantavirus,” Zermeño said. “The likelihood of you catching it from a person-to-person is minuscule.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/man-who-survived-hantavirus-but-lost-mom-and-sister-describes-experience/
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