6 Canadians self-isolating at home for 45 days after potential exposure to hantavirus

> Bleach kills it within 10 minutes So you can kill it with some sort of injection? I'm gonna have RFK check into that.

It’s crazy how it just straight up killed people. When I got it, the only thing that distinguished it from a cold was the muscle aches. I never knew my muscles could get so sore that it would keep me up at night.

i nearly died of it and i was quite healthy so i always get the shots-it was the weirdest illness-horrible head pain

Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer is only speaking about the Canadians involved. The flight that the exposure may have happened on was an international flight from Johannesburg to Amsterdam. Keep in mind the statement was "might have been exposed". This is just routine contact tracing. Edited to add: Over two dozen people disembarked the cruise ship after the first death but before WHO was alerted. At the same time, the wife of the deceased got on the international flight mentioned above before she was asked to deboard for being too sick. She died the next day (confirmed hantavirus positive post-mortem). Again, before WHO was alerted. So expect to see **many** more contact tracing reports like this one.

There is limited human to human transmission with this strain, but it’s not that easy to get. So far everyone that was in direct contact with he very sick woman on the flight has tested negative. There is a very small window where it can transfer can it takes pretty direct spit swapping or getting your face coughed on.

She was hospitalized yes, but as of today, WHO says she tested negative.

LoL...it was a LONG time ago. We shared a laugh once I explained what I was talking about. No ill will intended and no feelings hurt.

Well, at least not this time. They’re just being super cautious because the virus is deadly not because it’s likely to become a pandemic. https://virological.org/t/complete-sequence-of-orthohantavirus-andesense-virus-swiss-resident-2026/1023 sequenced already … so far nothing seems that different from other outbreaks. So not like the spike protein. At least not yet! Fingers crossed…

I’m gonna guess they’re American and that last part had a degree of facetiousness

US. Most people have, at best, 40 hrs of protected sick time. And many don't even have that.

The other stated reasons are just to cover up for that last reason.

Naw we need it to target the ones who spread it. Enough of the rich decided that we wer expendable, when in reality they are.

not looking forward to being spit on by shoppers at work again

Where you got it from isn't important at that point, it's that you don't continue the spread.

I think enough people to shut down an entire city is more than “a small group”. Most American right wing groups are foreign funded as well. That’s why so many alt right groups are shutting down now that Hungry stopped its propaganda funding. But they’re one of many. There is a global rise of alt right misinformation and authoritarianism. Acting like it’s only a problem in America is just dumb. The US just has the most easily exploited political system.

Now yes. But when the first batch left they didn’t know the passenger that died had contracted hantavirus.

True, but you can’t spread this one during the incubation time. F*** you covid.

Plan B saving our asses over here

That's not true at all, where did you even get that from? It's spread person-to-person via droplet transmission and is thought to be primarily contagious when symptoms first begin showing. The whole "Only if you’re exposed to an infected persons body fluids for an extended amount of time" is just flat out wrong. From the 2018 outbreak: > Our findings traced the first person-to-person transmission event to a birthday party with approximately 100 guests. The index patient (Patient 1) attended the event for 90 minutes and was reportedly symptomatic at the time, with fever and malaise. **Five persons (Patients 2 through 6) who had been seated close to Patient 1 reported onset of symptoms consistent with ANDV hantavirus pulmonary syndrome between 17 and 24 days after the party (Fig. S3).** Patient 2 was the most likely source for six infections in other persons during the early prodromal phase because of his active social life. Patient 2 died 16 days after symptom onset, and his spouse (Patient 9) was febrile while attending his wake. **An additional 10 persons who attended the wake and were in close contact with Patient 9 became ill between 14 and 40 days after the wake for Patient 2.** > **An important known risk factor for person-to-person transmission of ANDV is prolonged or close contact with symptomatic persons.** https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040

There is an institutionalized “Me First” attitude in the USA. As an outsider, it’s interesting how common it is for Americans to not give a f*** about their neighbour and be proud of it. I guess that’s why “socialism” is such a dirty word / concept there. Kinda explains how / why they would elect a person like Trump to be their head of state….