Long recovery
There is currently no widely available vaccine or specific antiviral treatment for hantavirus infections.
Treatment is supportive and based on symptoms, such as hospital care and respiratory support.
Lorne was allowed to go home after his hospital stay, but said it took a year-and-a-half to recover and rebuild his body back to full strength, describing the recovery process as “very slow”.
“There are micro baby-steps of recovery where I take two steps forward and four steps back.” he said.
“I also had other issues where I had a frozen shoulder after coming home from the hospital, which was extremely painful, so I was trying to rebuild myself. but also first I had to rebuild my shoulder before I could start working on other things.”
Christian said he was “perfectly fit” with “no consequential damages” following his four-month recovery, but also found the longer than expected recovery process hard and that the dialysis process he was put through was hard work for the whole body”.
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