CDC says 41 people being monitored for hantavirus in US

Woah I did not know we had 30k being monitored during the Ebola scare. I thought it was like 20.

I'm trying to work out whether or not this is something that's worth staying tuned for. The media, overall, seem to really want people to be worried. Then there's thoughtful people like you that help put it into some sort of understandable perspective - so thank you.

True but after trump and his best buddy musky raided and gutted everything I doubt we have that capacity now.

Exactly, thank you

Transmission is also on the lower end.   Unfortunately, the pateint generally dies before transmitting the virus to new victims.

That was before DOGE. 

You shouldn’t be worried at all, tbh, unless you know someone whose been on that cruise

Ive heard from medical people that the incubation prriod for this is much shorter and you develop serious symptoms etc much faster, therefore it doesnt spread as easily as COVID did.

Fun fact, you can do both

Measles doesn’t have a 40% fatality rate

We do both.

Fun fact: we literally are monitoring measles. They took a sledgehammer to us last year but emergency response scientists are still working hard on this.

"As of May 7, 2026, 1,842 confirmed measles cases were reported in the United States in 2026." says the CDC. You just making numbers up?

Current regime is pro-measles

While I agree, there are a few big reasons this is being tracked more than measles. Mainly that fact that the incubation period for measles is 10-14 days, vs 40-60 days for hanta. Likewise, fatality rate of measles is .01-.03%, while hanta is between 30-50% (in the US; less in other countries, but still much higher than measles). Lastly, there is currently no specific vaccine or antiviral treatment for hanta making it even harder to stop the spread if it does get out of hand.

There was a study of a super-spreader event from 2018 in Argentina, and pre-control-measures, the R value was estimated to be \~2. Interesting read (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040)

What is the word for the R 0 thing? It's how many one'd spread it too, right?

r0 is contextual when the number of patients are small, during andes Epuyen outbreak the rvalue ranged from 1.4 to 6 settling at 0.97 after quarantine was put in place

The R0 for Andes is 2.12

Had to bring up the fertilizer, didn’t you?

I learned that R-0 from the movie Contagion

Jesus Christ, that last statement is the real danger 😬

Two terms. Two pandemics? I don't believe in God, but perhaps somewhere, someone is sending us a sign that we need to turn this ship around.

"It appears you've caught the hanta. We're prescribing one raccoon p**** every morning to be taken orally. You know, none of this would have happened if we'd just built the ballroom."

Oh I'd straight up quit. No thank you. EDIT: F*** it, I'd probably stay if they offer time and a half

i've noticed this shift too. not even just for "lockdowns" or whatever, but with...everything? people are so quick to react to things that are not yet happening and may not happen at all.

They are probably sales people from the toilet paper industry. I think you should stock up though 🧻

Would be nice if people would post non paywalled links. I’m not paying to see a rueters article.

Was it in the US where the medical team didn’t follow the appropriate protocols while treating someone in active illness and now they also have to be monitored?

Did they actually? thats insane

I would not put it past RFK Jr.  Hopefully he does it himself.

Get with the times, you boof it so it’s more effective.

Nah, you’re supposed to inject it.

Stock up and wait for instructions

Daily perineum sunning is the only way.

Ehhhh the whole thing started because China initially covered it up and didn't lockdown or contact trace while it was exploding after potluck celebrations etc. They also disappeared journalists that whistleblew that COVID was happening. But then the US was just as bad, too. Editing to add details from Google: Zhang Zhan: A former lawyer who documented overcrowded hospitals and funeral homes, she was imprisoned for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." After completing a four-year sentence, she was reported missing again shortly after her scheduled release in May 2024, raising major alarms among rights groups. Chen Qiushi: Went missing in February 2020 after reporting from hospitals. A friend reported he was under state supervision before he resurfaced in September 2021, stating he had suffered from poor health and depression. Li Zehua: A former CCTV host who went to Wuhan, he was pursued by authorities and "disappeared" before resurfacing in April 2020, stating he had been quarantined and then released. Fang Bin: A Wuhan resident who posted videos of bodies outside a hospital. He was detained and later sentenced to three years in prison, reportedly released in April 2023.

Mildly positive 😂

There's no validated test for asymptomatic individuals and the CDC isn't following WHO guidance. They're unreliably testing people and making up terms like "mildly positive" on the fly because they know it's not a reliable result. > When asked whether the six Canadians who have returned home have been tested for hantavirus, Reimer said they haven't. > The reason for that, she said, is because **"there is no validated test for asymptomatic individuals."** > **"That means if we were to do a test on them, my biggest worry is if it came back negative, that could falsely reassure them that they're not infected when in fact we wouldn't be confident of that."** > That might cause them to take less precautions than necessary, she added. **There's also a chance that they get a false positive on the test, which could create unnecessary worry.** https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/livestory/hantavirus-questions-answered-9.7192423 They probably assumed the test would come back negative so they could use that test result to quell fears, but through their own sheer incompetence they've just created more fear with a false positive.

That person is being quarantined in Nebraska and being tested again after inconclusive test results.

This is people that are being monitored for potential signs of infection and not people that are confirmed to be infected. They are going to keep an eye on everyone who was on that ship and some of the people who had passing contact with confirmed infections until the potential incubation period has passed, and that's a fairly long incubation period.

IIRC there was a group of people that disembarked the ship about a week before it was confirmed that there was a hantavirus outbreak and those people had been wandering freely around their home countries until it was confirmed. I'm guessing at least one of those was from the US and the additional people being monitored are the ones those people had prolonged contact with.

41 people who potentially might have it because they were in contact with someone who was confirmed to have it. It’s not 41 confirmed cases.

Cruise ships are pretty big. 

> If it’s like last time this will be a non issue ... up until the point we have to shut everything dow The actual last time was the Oropouche Virus scare in 2025, which had cases pop up in the US. And before that was the H5N1 Bird Flu scare in 2024. There was also a Polio risk in Gaza, and a Marburg outbreak in Rwanda that was contained with tons of resources dedicated towards fast contact tracing and vaccinations. Most of these aren't remembered because their low risk didn't pan out and/or they were well-monitored and contained. So when you say "last time we had to shut everything down", you're specifically ignoring every virus that was successfully contained since then, and all the successful containments before then as well.

If you are talking about virus scares, the last time this happened wasn't Covid

The only people infected that we have details about were the original patient, his wife, and the ship medic. The others are all from the ship as well, and we have no information on their degree of contact with those other three. Nobody that’s had incidental contact off the ship in the way you’re describing has tested positive

These people aren’t confirmed to be infected they’re just being monitored cause they came in contact with someone who was.

There are only 11 positive cases of Hantavirus related to the cruise ship, everyone else is being monitored for symptoms by local health authorities. These people are all notified about contact tracing because they were exposed to the virus, they are not testing positive for it.

Science isn't political.  There isn't any cases of incidental contact causing an infection as of yet.  You're probably referring to the flight attendant who was hospitalized, and she tested negative.

> people who spend 30 seconds with infected people are testing positive You got a source for that or you just spewing bullshit?

I am also surprised about that.