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Argentina races to find origins of cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, amid reports some passengers have returned to US | Argentina

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Argentina races to find origins of cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, amid reports some passengers have returned to US
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Argentina races to find origins of cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, amid reports some passengers have returned to US
Argentina, where the MV Hondius cruise departed, consistently ranked by WHO as having highest incidence of hantavirus in region
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Remote-Resolve9797 May 7, 2026 +1961
It's almost like we learned fucked all from covid
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wastedgod May 7, 2026 +1375
Oh I learned something. That a good portion of the American population are idiots that will believe a Facebook meme over their doctors advise
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Inevitable_Butthole May 7, 2026 +419
They'll believe a con artist with no education over a doctor with decades of experience in viruses Truly nothing more american than that
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Lopsided-Sentence567 May 7, 2026 +44
Not just believe, trust them with their lives while throwing shoes at the trained professionals
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BadAdviceBot May 7, 2026 +11
Did you know bleach kills the coronavirus instantly? He had a great suggestion once about bringing that into the body….almost like a cleaning.
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prodigyknight May 7, 2026 +3
It matched with their preconceived notions. They wanted to be free of quarantine, so anyone giving any reason was good enough.
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adhoc_pirate May 7, 2026 +146
It'll be amazing. The doctors/scientists will tell us that Hantavirus is spread through contact with rat piss and shit, and therefore we should avoid contact. Half the population will respond by "doing their own research" and will stick it to the man by actively search out rats and licking their asses. They'll mock anyone who doesn't lick rat ass as scared sheep who are too blind to see what the New World Order is doing.
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yuccasinbloom May 7, 2026 +11
The, “do my own research” bit hits way too close to home. When I told my sister she could not see our elderly father without getting vaccinated, she told me she’d been doing her own research on vaccines since 2005. She’s a school teacher whose evangelical husband won’t let her have her own email address, but ok, sis. She was recently diagnosed with ALS and I heard she was getting treatments and I was like wow great she believes in modern medicine finally! Nope. She’s drinking a, “protocol” that doesn’t even have an ingredient list. $170 for a month supply of powder. She’s truly a f****** idiot.
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adhoc_pirate May 7, 2026 +5
My former brother-in-law was huge into conspiracy theories years before the whole covid thing. Claimed that the illuminati was the reason he didn't have a job, despite the fact that he was largely illiterate, didn't even finish Primary School, and had never once actually applied for a job. The New World Order was too scared of him knowing so much that they had to keep him down. Once Covid came around, he went into overdrive. He told my mother that if she did her research she would realize it was all a hoax, despite the fact my mother was a pallitative care nurse and had been assigned to work on a covid ward.
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yuccasinbloom May 7, 2026 +3
I just think stupid people are too stupid to know they’re stupid. But it’s kind of dangerous for them to be so convinced in things.
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GreenTrees797 May 7, 2026 +9
There is literally a meme like this with a lady licking a rat. 
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Razhyel May 7, 2026 +4
Why did i google this? ... oh my... i believed you before, why would i do this to myself? :D There really is one..
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Pamasich May 7, 2026 +25
> The doctors/scientists will tell us that Hantavirus is spread through contact with rat piss and shit Andes virus has human-to-human transmission, it's not just about rodents with this species of hantavirus.
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rootsandchalice May 7, 2026 +22
I think that was their point…
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adhoc_pirate May 7, 2026 +13
I know that, I was just making a joke that regardless of the medical advice given, a chunk of society will see some sort of conspiracy and go out of their way to do the exact opposite.
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Afraid-Ad7379 May 7, 2026 +2
What about those of us that just lick human ass ? Will we be ridiculed ?
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adhoc_pirate May 7, 2026 +3
Depends on whose ass. Some people are worse than rats.
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Afraid-Ad7379 May 7, 2026 +2
Solid point
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Big_lt May 7, 2026 +12
God you brought back PTSD of f****** morons using YouTube videos and influencers trying to claim masks don't stop the spread. I remember one video where some influencer took a mask and sprayed some solution and showed water particles on the other side. I just respond with you know doctors where these masks in surgery as to not spread any diseases. Are you saying surgeons and the medical pfoessions are wrong and bigcock4206969 knows more than the centuries of combined research MDs have done. They used to just walk away telling me not trust all doctors
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Morat20 May 7, 2026 +7
Also when they talked about how they literally couldn't breath and "science" proved it was damaging their brains from insufficient oxygen and whatnot. Meanwhile, a surgeon somewhere looked up from hour 6 of surgery and thought "What the f***?"
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Fancy-Proof7475 May 7, 2026 +5
Correction- bigcock42069691488
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Big_lt May 7, 2026 +2
L33t needs to be included
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Gen728 May 7, 2026 +27
They probably think Covid wasn't scary enough and weak sauce, well Hanta will absolutely force clarity in their thick skulls whether they like it or not if it ever becomes an "Oh no" scenario.
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de-dododo-de-dadada May 7, 2026 +28
I mean this is literally it. Covid fell in the sweet spot of not being deadly enough to turn heads (mortality rate, ultimately through mutations and vaccines, of well under one tenth of one percent, and only around 1-2% at the peak of the pandemic) but still deadly enough to overstress healthcare and public services. It's not an American thing or a MAGA thing, it's a human nature thing, it was the same everywhere. If people knew there was a 0.1% chance of dying from a parachute failure, plenty of people would risk going skydiving. If they were told they had a one in three chance of death from chute failure? Not so much.
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Different_Phrase8781 May 7, 2026 +5
MAGA was screaming “my freedoms!” During Covid. It’s 100% a maga thing
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Sure-Recording6151 May 7, 2026 +7
MAGA is a human thing. Plenty of ignorance and superstition and xenophobia in virtually every country in the world.
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Lopsided-Sentence567 May 7, 2026 +5
You think? They'll call it armageddon or something and become high on their religion.
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bergskey May 7, 2026 +1
Hantavirus is very, very unlikely to cause a large scale pandemic. If this is the Andes strain which passes from person to person, it still requires very close contact, like sleeping in the same bed. This will stay in the news like monkey pox did, but we won't see pandemic levels of anything.
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Solace2010 May 7, 2026 +11
Not the point. This virus has a mortality rate of 30-40%, you compare the with Covid’s 1% or less. It doesn’t need to his pandemic levels to kill some people
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SoHereIAm85 May 7, 2026 +8
Oh, it isn't just Americans. Also my doctor in the EU wouldn't covid vaccinate her own kids... My mother's Canadian doctor told her not to get the vaccine.
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Ordinary-Audience363 May 7, 2026 +2
Are you supposed to have a chlorine enema or something? /s
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Myrdraall May 7, 2026 +2
Someone literally told me they knew better because they were f****** an intern.
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Plus-Visit-764 May 7, 2026 +4
Jokes on you, my old doctor (old doctor for a reason, too) was a maga and didn’t believe you needed a vaccine for it… even after he got covid and almost died from it in the hospital. Once I figured out he was maga and that was his approach, I knew I couldn’t trust him for objective medical advice.
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh May 7, 2026 +5
People will believe a Facebook meme over a government that they saw previously lie to them. That's why it's so important, *especially* in a crisis, that governments maintain their credibility above everything else, rather than squandering it with lies "for the greater good" on day 1.
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kodingkat May 7, 2026 +22
It was a novel virus, they weren’t lies, they were educated guesses that were updated over time as we learned more information.
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CowboyNeale May 7, 2026 +2
And Facebook memes are known for reality and truthiness. Yes. /s
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leela_la_zu May 7, 2026 +1
And that they ultimately don't care about society, and a lot of them lack compassion.
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alcabazar May 7, 2026 +46
Well neither the US or Argentina are members of the WHO anymore, so... what's the opposite of learning?
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Pwoinklokinoid May 7, 2026 +10
Idiocracy, not sure if the movie predicted the future or the US are using it as a documentary.
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Low-Temperature-6962 May 7, 2026 +16
We now know what to expect. It's now Jan 2020.
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Mysterious-Habit6237 May 7, 2026 +11
Exactly. If this takes off, July 10th will be the shutdown date.
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runrunriderepeat May 7, 2026 +13
Except there is no chance we actually shut down this time, especially under this administration.
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Mysterious-Habit6237 May 7, 2026 +6
Part of me wonders though if this admin would benefit from a shutdown. They are losing control of the narrative, law and order jazz, and the possibility of really being racist with deportations because of the pathogen’s origin country seems like something that might actually motivate them to make us compliant through a shutdown. It was his administration who made us shutdown the first time, but they did it in a way to create chaos and cause more distrust. It just backfired on him in 2020.
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Low-Temperature-6962 May 7, 2026 +2
I'm being deliberately and sarcastically pessimistic. Think of it as a strategic short, just in case things go that way. Talking about more practical preparation Hantavirus vaccines are already licensed in some countries: inactivated vaccines have been used in China, and an inactivated HTNV vaccine is licensed in South Korea. However, in the U.S. and Europe, there is still no approved human hantavirus vaccine. The is active reasearch ongoing into mRNA vaccines, but you'd have to ask RFK Jr more about that and the the expected turnaround time, because he's the expert.
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Random0cassions May 7, 2026 +118
People learned to be racist against minorities and commit hate crimes if you looked Chinese
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dbu8554 May 7, 2026 +81
Come on now. We knew how to do that before.
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Fatmanhammer May 7, 2026 +30
Yeah, shit, I learned it from Mark Wahlberg.
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inclore May 7, 2026 +11
Damn this guy is legit, he can’t even tell between Chinese and Vietnamese.
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busted_bass May 7, 2026 +25
That was learned waaaaaay before Covid
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zerocoolforschool May 7, 2026 +29
The lesson is that you can’t stop it. I’m almost 100% sure Covid was here months before we knew what it was. My dad almost died from a mysterious illness at Christmas in 2019. Doctors had no idea what it was. Just that it was respiratory. I don’t think there was really ever gonna be a way to stop it from spreading.
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soopsneks May 7, 2026 +23
I also got sick 5 days before it really hit the US and I mean sick like I’ve never been in my life and I told my job I suspected Covid as I had to work with many international customers… they laughed and told me not to get too paranoid that they were certain I was fine and the virus wasnt here. 5 days later everyone was told to stay home and we would be updated as to when we could return to work.
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SoHereIAm85 May 7, 2026 +4
The first time she had it, my kid was so sick. She rarely does more than say she had some sniffles but carries on as normal and only threw up a couple of times even as a baby. She was SICK with covid. We were living in Westchester at the time, and this was March 2020. Months later we found out that half her preschool classmates had covid too. One kid's dad died, and our friend who worked there was hospitalised. They had closed the preschool about as early as anything was, but there's no way other places and other people weren't infected by the time that happened.
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srpntmage May 7, 2026 +5
It was. My wife works in a University lab and her peers had visited Wuhan, China that December. We both had something in Early January that was the sickest we had ever been. All of the Covid symptoms. Literally thought I was going to die. Everyone in her department were sick as hell too. We didn't officially catch COVID until several years after that.
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absurdlifex May 7, 2026 +2
There was never a way to stop it from spreading. There was a way for it to stop being continued to spread.
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Marzipanny May 7, 2026 +1
In February 2020, I had four friends in their 30s and 40s who were treated (one hospitalized) for "pneumonia"
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multic94 May 7, 2026 +9
Nah, we all learned a lot, Trump and his criminal crew did not. edit: downvote me all you want. MAGA only makes up a third of the US population at most. Everyone else learned the lessons of COVID.
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GreenTrees797 May 7, 2026 +3
Cruise ships never learned anything about anything. 
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Beginning_Ad_6616 May 7, 2026 +6
RFK JR is ready to tell us about the health benefits of eating the b**** of a rhinoceros sick with hantavirus.
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Beautiful_Finger4566 May 7, 2026 +4
since there's no vaccine for the hantavirus, the most critical thing for a country to do is enforce its borders
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AncientDevelopment55 May 7, 2026 +1
This is intentional.
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awwaygirl May 7, 2026 +1
Considering that the mortality rate is 15-40% for this variant of hantavirus, and Covid was 5-6%, we are in for a doozy.
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Do_Not_Touch_BOOOOOM May 7, 2026 +271
Would be a bad time if someone decided to gut the organisations tasked with preventing such outbreaks. But surely nobody's this stupid...
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jyeatbvg May 7, 2026 +91
USA barely got through Covid with Fauci, now they have Robert Kennedy Jr 💀
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Do_Not_Touch_BOOOOOM May 7, 2026 +20
Don't worry he will make you a cure out of roadkill and whale blubber.
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National-Two2417 May 8, 2026 +1
Rfk will handle it with great care and blame blue food coloring and also link it to why Americans are so unhealthy.
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Hiraya_Jayadewa May 7, 2026 +760
Update: - There's a French national who tested positive, he wasn't on the ship, but he was on the same flight as the woman who passed away in Johannesburg. - 23 people disembarked from the ship and went back home to their own countries 10 days after the first death, some of the nationalities that were mentioned are Americans, Swiss, British, Dutch, Australian and Taiwanese.
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EmptyBodybuilder7376 May 7, 2026 +262
Fantastic news, considering this thing has an **8-week incubation time**!
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Prestigious_Task7175 May 7, 2026 +20
You just wait until we get the World Cup.. let's hope we get some luck otherwise it could get really bad really soon.
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MoreThanVoidFiller May 7, 2026 +68
There is also now a KLM flight attendant who has now been hospitalized with symptoms (hanta not yet confirmed) after working the same flight from which the now-deceased Dutch woman was removed. News reports are saying that the FA's exposure time to the infected Dutch woman was <1 hour. 
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Rannasha May 7, 2026 +45
Initial symptoms of hantavirus are very generic though (fever, muscle aches, etc...) and can be caused by a very broad variety of diseases. The flight attendant is being hospitalized out of caution while they're doing testing to determine the cause.
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MoreThanVoidFiller May 7, 2026 +41
This is true, exactly why I said hanta is NOT yet confirmed.  The exposure was 1.5 weeks ago; others infected in this outbreak so far have shown symptoms 1-3 weeks after exposure, according to WHO. But the FA's illness could very well also turn out to be the flu; I'm sure they're exposed to all manner of illness daily on flights. 
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One-Routine-1752 May 7, 2026 +210
What source did you get the info that the French national tested positive? The only reports I could find was that he was identified as a close contact. Edit: It looks like The Sun ran this story this morning which was reposted by The Daily Beast….top tier journalism….
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh May 7, 2026 +31
There were several more reliable media that reported it, then silently removed their reporting without posting a correction. Listnookors mentioned that they saw it at The Independent, and I saw it myself on Sky News. My previous Listnook comments mentioning this are now only visible to me.
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DALTT May 7, 2026 +135
I saw someone on TikTok say that this was a mistranslation from a French newspaper simply saying a French national was on the plane and being monitored. I obviously can’t go through every French publication. But I speak enough French that I did check out the big ones. And I could not find a single French source that says he tested positive, only that he was being monitored. Obviously TikTok isn’t necessarily a great source either, but just adding that at least at a cursory glance the person who claimed that no French newspaper has reported an infection is correct. I also looked at The Sun article and there wasn’t a source. Make of that what you will.
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TomfromLondon May 7, 2026 +138
"I saw someone on tiktok say...." This is worse than" some bloke down the pub told me "
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Katyafan May 7, 2026 +26
Depends on the bloke!
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dwehlen May 7, 2026 +19
Depends on the pub!
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DALTT May 7, 2026 +5
Hence why I didn’t just trust what I was seeing on TikTok and went and verified what was being said myself to make sure that it was, in fact, true…
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impatientimpasta May 7, 2026 +30
> some of the nationalities that were mentioned are Americans, Swiss, British, Dutch, Australian and Taiwanese. Perfect. That's 4 continents covered then.
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svideo May 7, 2026 +8
Madagascar unaffected
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fxbob May 7, 2026 +32
Oh, then it's already too late.
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PseudoWarriorAU May 7, 2026 +6
Oh f***. Where did the Australian live? Any source of this info?
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AlrightAaron May 7, 2026 +63
So if this strain can transmit from human to human why is it now a problem?
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Street_Soft7957 May 7, 2026 +114
usually it used to transmit to close contacts like family who spend time with you in the same room but on the ship it transmitted more widely. either the ship is a unique environment where the known strain transmits easily or this is a new strain that is inherently more transmissible. the worst case would be easy airborne transmission. Since they don't know what is going on we are in a blindspot at the moment. hence the extra caution.
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eekspiders May 7, 2026 +81
Cruise ships are just floating petri dishes
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Street_Soft7957 May 7, 2026 +22
yes that's the hope here. because the alternative is not good.
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ahoypolloi_ May 7, 2026 +22
That whole industry should have been destroyed by Covid
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fairie_poison May 7, 2026 +2
good to remember that cruises are required to report all outbreaks but resorts, hotels, theme parks are not. outbreaks happen all the time but it seems like it only happens on cruise ships.
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bodonkadonks May 11, 2026 +1
because a few europeans died. in 2019 when 11 south americans died in another outbreak nobody gave a shit.
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aintnoonegooglinthat May 7, 2026 +21
I imagine an episode of Beakman's World but in Spanish
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saraseitor May 7, 2026 +1
I used to watch Beakman's World in Spanish, from Argentina! But i believe it was a Mexican dub
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UJustGotRobbed May 7, 2026 +297
I, for one, welcome the return to the quarantine times.
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furnesto May 7, 2026 +94
For we have not learned our lesson still, but also, seconded
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UJustGotRobbed May 7, 2026 +50
We'd probably need a Thanos level event to even begin to learn anything and even then I doubt we'd change.
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OolonColluphid May 7, 2026 +27
Well, hanta has about 50% fatality rate, so be careful what you wish for…
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Pondnymph May 7, 2026 +7
I wonder if previous exposure to another hanta, the puumala virus, offers any immunity. That one you can only contract once and it has a very low mortality rate.
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microboop May 7, 2026 +7
Hmm sounds like a decent thing to investigate for vaccine purposes.
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Rhubyn May 7, 2026 +14
Nah we'd make an attempt for about a day or so before falling back into old habits
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UJustGotRobbed May 7, 2026 +11
Like a Listnook Mod trying to reach something that fell on the floor.
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TurnkeyLurker May 7, 2026 +5
Need a handy reach-it picker-upper claw.
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UJustGotRobbed May 7, 2026 +5
I like the dinosaur head type
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TurnkeyLurker May 7, 2026 +2
With the teeth? 🦖
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UJustGotRobbed May 7, 2026 +2
Idk I'm a Stegosaurus fan but the T-Rex teeth do help the grip
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solidification May 7, 2026 +5
I think if it was a disease that made people permanently disfigured in the face that they would take it seriously. Only if it impacted their own vanity would they take proper precautions.
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InstantShiningWizard May 7, 2026 +3
"50% of people died? More for me!" - John Humanity
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ositola May 7, 2026 +16
That rona traffic was elite 
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UJustGotRobbed May 7, 2026 +5
It was just a much better time for a lot of people.
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Fire_Pea May 7, 2026 +11
Not with that mortality rate...
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Akussa May 7, 2026 +6
Well, with that high of a death rate, hantavirus may solve the anti-masker/vaxxer problem through natural selection.
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_MagicSmoke_ May 7, 2026 +4
Perfect time to do so on the gas front too. I miss quarantine times.
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shanster23 May 7, 2026 +17
I enjoyed lock down as an antisocial young child free woman. Now, with two hyper whiny kids... Please no 😭 Edit: meant introverted, rather than antisocial, but same idea regardless!
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TurnkeyLurker May 7, 2026 +5
I, for one, thought you were going to welcome our new Rodentia Overlords. 🐭 🐀
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UJustGotRobbed May 7, 2026 +6
I'm waiting for the "Alien" files to drop before I decide where to pledge my allegiance
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Frydendahl May 7, 2026 +3
Hey, at least the pandemic lockdowns will be great for dealing with the global oil crisis!
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Cutoffjeanshortz37 May 7, 2026 +4
If your in the US, fat change the clown in office would do that.
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thesagaconts May 7, 2026 +2
Warzone sucks now though.
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rdldr1 May 7, 2026 +2
Bruh, I got super fat during that time. Never again.
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adlopez May 7, 2026 +7
I have seeds and a yard this time. I’d appreciate the time provided it’s not more chaotic this go around.
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UJustGotRobbed May 7, 2026 +1
Gardening seems like a fantastic quarantine hobby.
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The_Matias May 7, 2026 +2
I, for one, don't. Clearly you don't have any loved ones who are immunocompromised... 
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Destroyer6202 May 7, 2026 +2
I cannot wait to sit at home and not meet people.
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UJustGotRobbed May 7, 2026 +2
It would be another nice break for the introverts
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PansophicNostradamus May 7, 2026 +223
No one thought "Hey... let's make sure they're not infected first?" When the WHO relies on "Trust me, bro..." we're doomed.
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DALTT May 7, 2026 +169
Those who left the ship already and returned to their home countries left the ship in the window after the outbreak had started but before the virus had been identified as hantavirus. No one has been allowed off the ship (barring medical evacuation) since the virus was identified.
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seitung May 7, 2026 +123
Presumably they left either before the WHO could, or despite the attempts to quarantine the ship for investigation. Also, it’s not like the WHO has absolute authority. And the US withdrew from the WHO complicating matters.
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jamesludlowlee May 7, 2026 +47
Sadly, even if the US didn’t pull out of the WHO, they just provide guidelines. Governments must let people renter their country of citizenship, regardless of their “infection status”.
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TurnkeyLurker May 7, 2026 +1
\*re-enter
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Purplecatty May 7, 2026 +24
Clearly they didnt know of this outbreak yet…
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PlatformVarious8941 May 7, 2026 +37
A bloke dying on a boat is not a cause for concern for anyone. The wife, dying after of the same virus, is.
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Cheirona May 7, 2026 +15
Worse, after a plane flight.
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NotEmmaStone May 7, 2026 +2
Multiple flights 😭
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Buck2240 May 7, 2026 +5
They disembarked a week ago, before hantavirus was suspected
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alcabazar May 7, 2026 +6
May I remind you that US is not a member of the WHO anymore
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mouseycraft May 7, 2026 +6
California is a member of GOARN and apparently there are returned passengers being monitored here. So WHO can still get the data from that at least, I guess...
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tlst9999 May 7, 2026 +13
Right in time for the World Cup
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[deleted] May 7, 2026 +25
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____DEADPOOL_______ May 7, 2026 +6
They don't even trust their own eyes and ears, lol. We're truly living in dystopian times.
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Milhala May 7, 2026 +8
I really hope the new infections from the flights are a hoax, during Covid despite living in isolation I caught Covid three times from working in a public facing job. If this gets out it’s going to be a mass culling of service workers because people are too self centered to stay indoors.
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EmptyBodybuilder7376 May 7, 2026 +50
With an **8-week incubation** time, you just let everyone from that ship spread all over the world....? OK, just checking.
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Fire_Pea May 7, 2026 +6
Has anyone who wasn't on the cruise gotten it yet? If that starts happening I might get worried
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promonalg May 7, 2026 +4
Flight attendant is suspected to have it who was in contact with patients
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sanverstv May 7, 2026 +7
Given that our public health surveillance infrastructure has been decimated by a charlatan empowered by a megalomaniac, I don't have a good feeling about any of this....
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SIRENVII May 7, 2026 +27
More deadly than covid I believe but harder to transmit supposedly. I'm down for another shut down. Gas is too expensive to drive to work anymore.
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Silver_Fulminate May 7, 2026 +10
I’d be amazed if the US government would shut down with these malicious idiots in charge. 
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another_new_login May 7, 2026 +1
Can't wait til newCovid crosses with the cold virus and we get the Omicron variant. 10 times as transmissible but half as deadly.
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xXMr_PorkychopXx May 7, 2026 +72
They…let them get off??? I mean morals, ethics and law aside why wouldn’t they keep them all contained on the ship? Quarantine the boat like they did the world til something can be done no? I’m but a simple man I do not know how these situations are typically handled and would like to know.
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Khadgar1701 May 7, 2026 +126
They didn't know what the illness was or that they might be infected. All they knew was that an old man died of something a few weeks ago. For all they knew it was just a bad cold or his heart just gave out. Everybody who had left the ship did it *before* people realised what the virus was. Once it was confirmed nobody was allowed to just disembark.
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xXMr_PorkychopXx May 7, 2026 +5
Ah I see, I was under the impression it was known already and THEN they disembarked. Well hopefully we can nip this one in the bud but I won’t hold my breath. Thank you for correcting me.
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NotEmmaStone May 7, 2026 +4
They may not have even known someone died tbh. I doubt they make that public knowledge, it would just weird people out
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Live_Studio_Emu May 7, 2026 +1
I may be wrong, someone correct me if so, but I thought that they knew something was up on the way to Cape Verde, who denied them entry as a result, so they just sort of hung around nearby for a bit. Then they headed up to the Canary Islands and docked there, where a bunch got off and flew home. The Canaries originally declined to accept them to land, but the central Spanish government overruled them and permitted the ship to dock, claiming minimal risk to the population. We’ll see if that ages like milk in, oh, about 6 weeks.
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relative_void May 7, 2026 +1
Those disembarking left before they were denied entry to Cape Verde. They included the wife of the first man to die, and alarm bells only rang when she collapsed a day after leaving the boat. It was a two part cruise so people who were only doing the first part left as schedule.
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saumanahaii May 7, 2026 +24
Oh hey, new COVID just dropped.
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No-Lemon-1183 May 7, 2026 +7
We should fund the shit out of vaccination development programme NOW 
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Throwaway1098590 May 7, 2026 +2
Covid-19: New phone who dis!? Hantavirus: Yo what up bro!!? People, we saw how some countries and their leaders failed the litmus test. Let’s not do this thing again.
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ResonanceThruWallz May 7, 2026 +10
Negating the death part of this, I enjoyed Covid, got to work from home, didn’t have to deal with a lot of people, got raises cause of WFH competition, gas was super c****, every movie released on streaming device. Learned how to make bread, pizza, and beer. I have all the hobbies still… stupid return to office gets gutted again. I don’t really remember a lot of the bad. So I’m going in optimistic for season 2 of the plague
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thesagaconts May 7, 2026 +4
Some say Trump is the antichrist. Perhaps he is the Horseman of Pestilence.
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Talinn_Makaren May 7, 2026 +2
I was hoping for an asteroid but I'll take hantavirus.
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Phantom_61 May 7, 2026 +2
Great, pandemic 2 under Trump. How many millions are going to die this time?
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ivanreyes371 May 7, 2026 +2
Safe to assume its no longer contained.
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MXVIV May 7, 2026 +19
Why weren’t they all quarantined? This is reality not a pathogen video game. Why do people continue treating cruise ships as entertainment when they are floating bio hazards? 
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Vic18t May 7, 2026 +86
Because some people left the ship in the middle of the itinerary before the first person died.
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LordJonathanChobani May 7, 2026 +97
It’s so weird to me how much energy listnookors spend creating non-sense scenarios so they can virtue signal for internet brownie points. People need to read more and talk less. These people disembarked weeks ago, way before hantavirus was even suspected. Deaths on cruise ships happen. They don’t just quarantine and forbid people from being disembarked to investigate every single death. Is it not common sense that the initial responses to outbreaks are by nature, reactive and not proactive? This was presumed to be an isolated incident and there was no reason to believe that an infectious virus was the root cause. There was no cluster when these people disembarked weeks ago. But go on with the hindsight bias to feel morally superior.
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Prestigious_Load1699 May 7, 2026 +8
My friend, we are all here to vent out of complete ignorance. How dare you present logic?
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ItsJustForMyOwnKicks May 7, 2026 +8
Trump starting another pandemic?
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CurtisLeow May 7, 2026 +116
He didn't start the previous pandemic. He just horribly mismanaged the response, killing hundreds of thousands of people and crippling the economy. So you can guarantee that if there's another pandemic he'll do exactly the same thing.
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fxbob May 7, 2026 +45
No, no, no. Last time he had actual doctors and people who told him "No" (not like he listened much anyway). This time he's got clowns and grifters all the way down.
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ESCMalfunction May 7, 2026 +8
If this ends up spreading like COVID did it isn’t going to be anything like this. Hantavirus has a 30-40 percent mortality rate, countries will completely lock down to not lose a third of their population. That’s enough to completely cripple a country.
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Howzitgoin May 7, 2026 +14
Over 1.2 million deaths in the US alone.
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CurtisLeow May 7, 2026 +2
Yeah but some of those died after Trump left office. I think it was still below a million when he was in office. It's generally agreed that the deaths were much higher because he downplayed the pandemic initially, then spread political BS about the pandemic.
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Howzitgoin May 7, 2026 +10
He’s still partially responsible. You don’t get to make a mess then walk away and blame it all on the guy after. If he had better managed it from the get-go, there’d be less rampant spread, and as a result, deaths that occurred after he left office. Getting kicked out of the white house didn’t just magically absolve him.
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Katyafan May 7, 2026 +13
Some of the deaths still occuring now are attributable to him. The magnitude of what he did (and didn't do) will be legendary.
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karateninjazombie May 7, 2026 +2
I'm surprised they didn't force a quarantine on it when it came into a port. Like we know you're all possibly infected. So no docking and waiting there til we sort it. Also here's a warship to make sure you don't leave.
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mdsjhawk May 7, 2026 +2
I really feel like Trump doctor-Jesus should go and heal these people with his glowing hands.  Feels right.  
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Effective_Effort1010 May 7, 2026 +1
suddenly all those warehouses the gob is buying makes sense. hey were are the invoices for medical waste burner ovens? lol
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thatguy5432112345 May 7, 2026 +1
Pandemic 2; The Search for More Money!
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Material_Policy6327 May 7, 2026 +1
Argentina probably will do whatever the US wants and squash this
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