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hantavirus
Oct 18, 2009
throwing you a curve ball been admitted to hospital 3 times dizziness, headache,stiffneck,backache,jointpain no fevers all in the past month taking truvada and kaletra tcells699 vl under 50 have all kinds of tests lp mri catscans rpr blood work everything checks out fine came home today keep my laptop under my bed as i reached to get it something seem to be stuck to it which turned out to be a mouse dropping upon further inspection found alot of droppings under bed i,ve tried all kinds of medications from antibiotics,naproxen,nortriptyline,ibuprofen,meclizene nothing works no fevers so far if this is hanta virus can it be found through blood work and is there a medication for it?
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Response from Dr. Holodniy
Yes, there is a blood test, and treatment is mostly supportive. However, your symptoms and time course don't exactly fit the presentation of hanta virus infections.
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