{"podcast":{"title":"popular Wiki of the Day","slug":"popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172","podcast_index_feed_id":1065172,"rss_url":"https://wikioftheday.com/pwotd/pwotdpod.xml","website_url":"https://wikioftheday.com/","image_url":"https://wikioftheday.com/WotDPopular.jpg","author":"Abulsme Productions","episode_count":100,"summary":"One popular Wikipedia article highlighted and summarized each day.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T12:18:07.064791+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172"},"episode":{"title":"Orthohantavirus","slug":"orthohantavirus","published_at":"2026-05-08T02:24:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/orthohantavirus","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172","url":"https://wikioftheday.com/wotdep.php?pod=popular&epnum=3292","audio_url":"https://wikioftheday.com/pwotd/pwotdpod20260508022416.mp3","summary":"pWotD Episode 3292: Orthohantavirus Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today. With 410,426 views on Thursday, 7 May 2026 our article of the day is Orthohantavirus. Orthohantavirus is a genus of viruses that includes all hantaviruses (family Hantaviridae) that cause disease in humans. Hantaviruses are naturally found primarily in rodents. In general, each hantavirus is carried by one rodent species and each rodent that carries a hantavirus carries one hantavirus species. Hantaviruses in their natural reservoirs usually cause an asymptomatic, persistent infection. In humans, however, hantaviruses cause two diseases: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). HFRS is mainly caused by hantaviruses in Africa, Asia, and Europe, called Old World hantaviruses, and HPS is usually caused by hantaviruses in the Americas, called New World hantaviruses. Hantaviruses are transmitted mainly through aerosols and droplets that contain rodent excretions, as well as through contaminated food, bites, and scratches. Environmental factors such as rainfall, temperature, and humidity influence transmission. HFRS is marked by kidney disease with kidney swelling, excess protein in urine, and blood in urine. The case fatality rate of HFRS varies from less than 1% to 15% depending on the virus. A mild form of HFRS often called nephropathia epidemica is often caused by Puumala virus and Dobrava-Belgrade virus. For HPS, initial symptoms are flu-like, with fever, headache, and muscle pain, followed by sudden respiratory failure. HPS has a higher case fatality rate than HFRS, at 30–60%. For both HFRS and HPS, illness is the result of increased vascular…","meta_description":"pWotD Episode 3292: Orthohantavirus Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":303,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/episodes/orthohantavirus/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/orthohantavirus.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}