re: The hantavirus has made it to land in Switzerland from the cruise ship

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Honkus can fill you in on how that works.

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Pro Tip- if you're gonna quarantine do it in sunny southern California

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The best thing as it relates to transmission is this virus is extremely deadly and symptoms come on fast

That doesn’t lead to it being something that can really super spread. What made Covid such a spreader was that it actually wasn’t that deadly and people could carry it while being only marginally sick

Don’t think you will have many asymptomatic hantavirus people still going to work

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Yes.

This is why viruses mutate to be less lethal so they can more easily spread.

The hantavirus is bad fricking news. If there was an outbreak of this in the city I'm in, I'm not going in public until we're sure it's gone. Bad, bad news.

This ain't no China flu. At least the versions that have been around thus far. Maybe a new strain will gradually become less lethal if it's far more transmittable.

NY Post Article

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At least 23 passengers from the hantavirus-infected cruise ship MV Hondius have already left the boat and returned home, including to the US, according to a shocking new report — and one of them has already gotten sick.

The travelers did not realize that they had been exposed to the deadly virus — which has a mortality rate of up to 40% — when they left the expedition vessel during its stop at Saint Helena, a tiny island in the South Atlantic, on April 23, according to a passenger who is still aboard the ship.

“There are 23 people wandering around there, and until three days ago, no one had contacted them,” the passenger told Spanish newspaper El Pais.

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“The Australian went back to Australia, the one from Taiwan to Taiwan, the Americans to all corners of North America. The Englishman to England, the Dutch to their homes… I don’t remember the rest.”

One of those passengers, a Swiss man who had returned home with his wife, tested positive for hantavirus on Wednesday, authorities said.

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“Working with national authorities and the ship’s operators, our teams have built a list of who was where when, in order to ensure that any potential exposure is documented and people can get help if they develop symptoms,” the rep said. “This contact tracing also helps to contain any potential spread.”

An Oceanwide Expeditions spokesperson said company officials were “currently working on details of passengers and crew who embarked and disembarked on the various legs of the voyage.”

But the passenger believed their efforts were too little, too late.

“We were in touch with them and kept asking ourselves, ‘When are they going to tell them something?’ Some people weren’t contacted until yesterday,” they reportedly said.

The deceased Dutchman’s wife, who also disembarked in Saint Helena, later succumbed to the virus at a Johannesburg hospital.

Argentine investigators now believe the couple was responsible for bringing the virus onboard, after picking it up from rodents while visiting a landfill during a bird-watching tour in the city of Ushuaia days before the ship departed from the Argentine port on March 20.

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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Well

We aren’t going to have to wonder for very long if this thing has mutated to become more transmissible

Break out the Ivermectin.

R0 for hanta is like 1.2

Would take a good mutation to make it a problem (or more lab manipulation fun)

Unlike covid, where epidemiologists were worried, none seem to care here

The other thing about Andes hantavirus, it isn’t spreadable until symptoms show.

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Well someone in the back is hacking up a lung.

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Weird enough, I'm just getting over a really bad sinus infection that's been stringing along for 2 weeks now. I must've hacked up my lungs several times over by now. This post kinda reminds me of that time I was pretty sure I had the rona that December in 2019 before I really knew what the rona was.

Nurses are already working on their dance choreography.

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believe the couple was responsible for bringing the virus onboard, after picking it up from rodents while visiting a landfill during a bird-watching tour in the city

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Who the frick does stuff like this? Is it really enjoyable to bird watch while smelling other people’s shite? White trash morons, literally.