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Dwayla May 5, 2026 +2885

Send Dr Oz, Dr Phil and RFK Jr, I'm sure they can help.

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sapntaps May 5, 2026 +571

We don’t want RFK Jr to have sex with the virus and create a new virus. I’m buying puts on this happening on polymarket

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SYNTHLORD May 6, 2026 +74

I spoke with RFK Jr in a dream and he said you need to build up an immunity by eating mouse shit. Then I asked the real RFK Jr what he thought of my dream, and he said “you ca-a-a-n commu-u-nicate with me via the e-e-e-thereal drea-a-m world. Ple-ease be sure to-o eat o-o-nly o-o-rganic mouse shi-i-i-t”

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Ahelex May 5, 2026 +66

>We don’t want RFK Jr to have sex with the virus and create a new virus. The Hanta brain worm!

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Thunderclone_1 May 5, 2026 +26

Like his last brain worm, it will starve to death.

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RFKs_brain_worm May 6, 2026 +20

Very much alive. Don’t mind the username.

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FaderJockey2600 May 6, 2026 +6

I don’t think the worm is the part that died…

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Decent-Ganache7647 May 5, 2026 +21

I just spit out my wine. Thanks.

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BubbleThinker May 5, 2026 +7

Save that spittage. Dr. Kennedy needs to get a closer look at it.

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hot_to_trotsky666 May 5, 2026 +11

Maybe this is how Nurgle is created.

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MrBabbs May 6, 2026 +10

Nurgle and Trump do share some physical similarities, but doesn't Nurgle actually care about his subjects in some strange, twisted way?

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OkTouch5699 May 5, 2026 +6

The picture i have of this birus hanging out in saunas and pools with blue jeans on....

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cozycorner May 6, 2026 +6

This needs to be a South Park episode. Not the actual terrible situation—the RFK thing.

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Ok-Grand-1492 May 5, 2026 +2

Maybe he'll just try to cut off the viruses p****? Or is that only something he does to things that are already dead when he finds them.

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CarlySimonSays May 6, 2026 +3

Why couldn't he just get into really creepy amateur taxidermy and leave us all alone? That's clearly where his passions would lie if he knew it was an option! Get the man a taxidermy book and let him get super into recreating his own strange Victorian-esque collections of dead stuff. (In Ann Cleeves' "Vera" detective books and TV show, Vera needs to clear out the room of horribly-done bird taxidermy that her late distant father obsessed over instead of tending to her after his wife/her mother died. HMMM. I feel like Vera's dad was basically RFK Jr. without money (ok and isolated in the north of England). Her dad is even a jerk who goes out stealing rare birds' eggs for his collection! RFK Jr. would probably love that, being entitled, selfish, and horrible.) The Kennedys should just sequester their traumatized, brain-damaged-via-drugs weirdo in a cottage in their compound and leave cartons of broken eggshells on his stoop to fiddle with. Maybe they could get him a cat so he can play with any dead birds or rodents it leaves in front of the door.

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VaginaBurner69 May 5, 2026 +23

RFK will either give the virus some cocaine to distract it, or he’ll call it ‘natural selection’ and be done with it.

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doomeddeath May 6, 2026 +3

RFK would snort that thing off of a toilet if it could be

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pomonamike May 5, 2026 +18

RFK jr will undoubtedly eat all the canaries.

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VaginaBurner69 May 5, 2026 +4

Brain worm’s gotta eat 🤷‍♂️

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metataichou May 6, 2026 +5

Dont forget Joe Rogan

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MarketingSpecial6604 May 6, 2026 +2

Don't send RFK, he will snatch their penises.

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velorae May 6, 2026 +3

Lmaooooo. But for real, they shouldn’t let it dock.

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DogVacuum May 5, 2026 +3

“He need some milk!” - RFK Jr

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Rodinsprogeny May 6, 2026 +2

How dare you suggest that Trump isn't the man for this job. Treason!

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Samwellikki May 6, 2026 +2

Who do you think told them to use Canaries?

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LUMLTPM May 6, 2026 +1

Is Dr Phil even a real doctor?

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eric_ts May 5, 2026 +856

Madagascar has closed their ports.

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malibuklw May 5, 2026 +293

As long as you can get to Greenland before they close you can still win this

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thefunkybassist May 5, 2026 +50

Just silently get Norway first and wait for that ship!

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zephyrtr May 5, 2026 +61

Shut. Down. Everything.

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GrinchWhoStoleEaster May 6, 2026 +4

No need. Hantavirus doesn't work this way. - Hantavirus itself isn't necessarily that bad. In fact, you may not know you even have it. What gets you is if it progresses to a condition called Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. HPS has a 30-40% kill rate and those who do survive often have heart damage. - Hantavirus doesn't spread like COVID or the flu. It's not an airborn , person to person pathogen. Those people got that because that ship is infested with mice, to be 100% honest, and somehow mouse urine/droppings got disturbed and they breathed it in. They can't cause some kind of a mass outbreak if they disembark. And, given the mortality rate I described above, it is IMPERATIVE they disembark somewhere with and ICU available... Being ON the ship is how you spread this thing, not allowing the infected to come ashore.

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IANALbutIAMAcat May 6, 2026 +9

Actually this strain is h2h communicable and they believe it was brought on to the ship by patient zero

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Symetrie May 6, 2026 +6

did hantavirus write this

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GrinchWhoStoleEaster May 7, 2026 +2

No, I'm Human Metaneumovirus. But I dated Hantavirus in college. She's a bad girl. :3

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AmusingVegetable May 6, 2026 +5

It can have an incubation period of 6-8 weeks, so they could have gotten infected before boarding.

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AnotherBoojum May 7, 2026 +1

Pepperidge Farm remembers that meme

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SwoopzB May 5, 2026 +70

Funny, reading about this the other day inspired me to boot up Plague Inc. for the first time since…. Covid. 🤔. Anyway, I won easily, still got it, get bent Madagascar.

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unicornviolence May 6, 2026 +22

I think I’ll check out the symptoms and do a Plague Inc run starting in Argentina and see how this plays out.

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ToNoMoCo May 6, 2026 +4

don't you mean how it "*plagues* out"? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Pledgeofmalfeasance May 6, 2026 +4

I see you have suffered as I have suffered

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[deleted] May 6, 2026 +1

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MidNCS May 6, 2026 +9

It's a meme about the game Plauge Inc.

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patrickhenrypdx May 5, 2026 +266

Track the ship here: [https://www.cruisemapper.com/?imo=9818709](https://www.cruisemapper.com/?imo=9818709)

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Mr_IT May 5, 2026 +281

It’s really not THAT big of a cruise ship. I can’t even imagine the terror every second waiting to see if you get sick.

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Ok-Grand-1492 May 5, 2026 +224

Especially with how crazy hantavirus works. The incubation period can be up to two months, and it has such a high mortality rate when the symptoms finally do hit.

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theTinTank May 5, 2026 +89

So, I’m dumb. Can the passengers that don’t appear sick be tested once they’re off the ship or is it just a wait and see thing?

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donkey2471 May 5, 2026 +173

Looks like they can be tested but seems like they are all going to be quarantined and the full ship disinfected

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littlebittydoodle May 6, 2026 +74

Imagine being on the next cruise after the ship has been “disinfected.” It’s so damn big, with so many rooms and crevices, I would never trust it to be disinfected after this.

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CanuckianOz May 6, 2026 +43

Viruses do “die” after not being in a suitable environment for a certain period. Hantavirus appears to be able to survive 2-3 days.

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pepperino132 May 6, 2026 +13

I'm guessing the company will have to rename, re-register it (etc.) so the next guests don't even know... Which frankly I can't blame them for

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melody_magical May 6, 2026 +202

Thankfully Spain and the WHO are doing it, not 🍊 and 🧠🪱

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MedicalDisscharge May 6, 2026 +34

I'll have you know brain's worms are much more intelligent than the government

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Four_beastlings May 6, 2026 +19

Fernando Simon is in charge of this and his management of ebola was flawless imo. Sad because they killed the dog of one of the infected, but I guess it was better to err on the side of caution.

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MadCapHorse May 6, 2026 +15

Why not disembark, quarantine the passengers for a month, and then sink the boat? It’s obviously incredibly disruptive to the lives of everyone on board, but surely every nation could chip in a little so we don’t have a global outbreak, right? That’s in everyone’s best interest

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MrJaffaCake May 6, 2026 +12

Dont give them any ideas. The last time every nation chipped in there were nukes involved.

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misszoei May 6, 2026 +2

This is exactly what I think will end up happening. No one will want to take responsibility for it otherwise.

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donkeyrocket May 6, 2026 +2

Unless the ship is unrecoverably infested with rats, there’s no need to destroy it. Hantavirus doesn’t live very long. Or at least not so long that the ship would be condemned. I don’t think the ship is so riddled with rats it couldn’t be dealt with. We’d be hearing reports of constant rat sightings if it was that infested.

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Iaragnyl May 6, 2026 +2

Even if there were plenty of rats, it shouldn’t be hard to exterminate them when there is no human on board anymore. I don’t know the effort it would take to desinfect everything after but I would assume a new ship is many times more expensive.

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Ok-Grand-1492 May 6, 2026 +36

They could be tested for it once off the ship, they're just still all stuck on the ship for now. Hopefully Spain and the Canary Islands can get the logistics sorted to evacuate everyone when they arrive.

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LasVegasNerd28 May 6, 2026 +12

WHO was spotted on board like earlier today or yesterday, hopefully they took test samples.

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theTinTank May 6, 2026 +6

That’s good at least

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liittle_dove7 May 6, 2026 +14

Two MONTHS?! Omg

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Blagnet May 5, 2026 +78

I used to work in the tourism industry with some of these luxury arctic cruises. Some of them (the even smaller boats) started at $30k a ticket! I gotta say, I have never seen so many enormous diamond rings, lol, as when one of those cruises docked. Those were, like, 25 person cruises, if I remember. This boat looks like it's one of the more affordable small-scale arctic luxury cruise liners. It's got 150 person capacity. Google says tickets are in the $6-25k range, depending on the length of trip. It says, Antarctica trips start at $10k. Pretty affordable, as far as luxury arctic cruises go, in my experience!

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fellow_enthusiast May 6, 2026 +4

Probably gonna be a lot cheaper on their next cruise!

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patrickhenrypdx May 5, 2026 +58

Yeah, not one of the huge cruise ships. On these small ones, everybody is in contact with everybody else, except for maybe the crew in the engine room. My former boss took a tour in the artic and re-encountered another person he'd met on a previous *antarctic* tour ...it's a small world for these environmental tourists.

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sirSADABY May 6, 2026 +3

This shows it not in the canary islands?

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patrickhenrypdx May 6, 2026 +7

Correct. Apparently the ship was planning to go there but this morning's news reports are saying that the Canary Islands governor doesn't want the ship.

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dolphin37 May 5, 2026 +431

there’s zombies on it now arent there

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candygram4mongo May 5, 2026 +76

I'd watch that movie.

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jen_17 May 5, 2026 +54

Sequel to snakes on a plane. Zombies on a boat.

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zephyrtr May 5, 2026 +9

I thought the sequel to Snakes on a Plane was Snakes on a Train?

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LonelyNovel1985 May 5, 2026 +7

Don't forget the prequel, Snakes on my Brain.

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Kapowpow May 5, 2026 +3

I prefer the spinoff, snakes go insane

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colantor May 5, 2026 +1

Before i scrolled down i said, ive had it with these mother fuckin zombies on this mother fuckin boat! Glad to see you also thought of that.

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leviathynx May 5, 2026 +4

You bout to live it homie.

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Doesdeadliftswrong May 6, 2026 +2

The cancelled Resident Evil on the Gameboy Color took place on a cruise ship. I always thought that would be an awesome idea for a RE game especially if it had updated graphics. I can't believe they haven't pursued that idea.

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sandysanBAR May 5, 2026 +6

Do you WANT zombies? Cause that is how you get Zombies!

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VaginaBurner69 May 5, 2026 +11

No that’s just Melania on a cruise to take a break from the Donald.

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ifurmothronlyknw May 5, 2026 +170

We need someone on the ship to do an ama

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Socketz11 May 6, 2026 +244

I woke up this am to the group text with my brother and sister freaking out, turns out my cousin is on this ship. He isnt sick, but it takes a long time for symptoms to show up. I dont have any inside info, and I haven't heard from him. But crazy since I have been following the story and saying to myself "well they are all f'ed" and their ship reminded me of the Airplane in the show Station 11. But I find out one of my family is really on the ship, and now I feel guilty thinking about it that way.

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Mesapholis May 6, 2026 +10

It’s possible the crew is under orders to limit uncontrolled communication - it’s bad PR if hypochondriac (or actually, really scare and sick people start communicating their fears and worries live) So maybe they cut wifi on board

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Venture_compound May 6, 2026 +6

Damn a Station 11 reference

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pungen May 6, 2026 +55

I feel bad for them. You just know at least one person is losing their marbles in panic about being indefinitely trapped on a ship while waiting to see if you catch a deadly illness

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alcabazar May 6, 2026 +118

>Two crew members, including the ship's reportedly British doctor, require urgent medical care and are due to be evacuated on a hospital aircraft to the Canary Islands on Tuesday. A third person linked to a German national who died is also due to be evacuated. It's a grim reminder that a Chinese doctor in Wuhan was one of the first victims of COVID -19.

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SpiderSlitScrotums May 6, 2026 +72

[Dr. Urbani](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Urbani) died during the original SARS outbreak as well (the strain was named after him). [Dr. Adadevoh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameyo_Adadevoh) also died during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. There are some incredible heroes in public health that most people don’t know about.

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TooMad May 5, 2026 +145

This will all finally be over by Easter

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Delicious-Freedom-56 May 6, 2026 +7

as soon as it gets warm

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wip30ut May 5, 2026 +336

the Canarias don't deserve this mouse plague! They should set sail for Mar a Lago pronto.

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cantproveidid May 5, 2026 +75

People are always using Canaries to know how bad something is.

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subdep May 6, 2026 +10

Best way to test the contagion is a Canary in the Cruise Ship.

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Roy-Southman May 5, 2026 +18

Yeah, f*** that. I’m living in Spain right now, I don’t want that shit around here.

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Venture_compound May 5, 2026 +78

A plane just departed from D.C. with Special Agents Mulder and Scully.

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ResistiveBeaver May 6, 2026 +21

Trump's FBI no longer has Special Agents, only *special* agents.

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Gadshill May 5, 2026 +111

The canary in a coal mine islands.

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Dophie May 5, 2026 +61

Cool, cool. Just landed in Gran Canaria.

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VirtualFever May 5, 2026 +68

Feels weird seeing this considering I did my thesis on hantavirus…

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AlmostFamous49 May 6, 2026 +28

So how did it end? 😬

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VirtualFever May 6, 2026 +104

Hantavirus is quite nasty! It can cause your blood vessels to become leaky, especially in the lungs or kidneys depending on the syndrome (like you probably know already). The exact mechanism is not fully certain, but there is a strong case that it is not a direct killing of the cells by the virus itself. Instead, it seems to be more related to immune dysregulation, meaning your own immune system contributes a lot to the damage here…!

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Aliens_Unite May 6, 2026 +26

Hantavirus freaks me out. Nothing more fun than helping cleaning your parents garage in the desert and coming across a box filled with deer mouse droppings.

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WoolooOfWallStreet May 6, 2026 +8

Cytokine storm?

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1WeekLater May 6, 2026 +10

may i ask a question please? why do these virus suddenly appear on a random cruise ship? whats their source?

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LinusandLucy2016 May 6, 2026 +15

They got on the ship in Argentina where the virus has had pockets of disease over the last 20 years or so happening yearly. They could have gotten it while on land in Argentina or got it when they got off exploring somewhere after the fact, but seems more likely they got it in Argentina based on the death date of the 1st victim- April 11. The rest started showing symptoms about 2 weeks later. It would appear the incubation on this specific pocket is about 2 weeks if everything I said is the actual way it happened.

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DeliciousStand372 May 6, 2026 +5

So, it doesn't mean the ship has rats, right?

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ThatWasIntentional May 6, 2026 +3

The fact that people on this ship keep getting sick ) not just a one and done), points to a rat infestation

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reasonably_plausible May 6, 2026 +5

When it was thought to be a normal hantavirus, that would be the conclusion. But now that they have shown it to be the Andes Virus, it can also be due to human-to-human transmission.

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Discombombulatedfart May 6, 2026 +7

The news article is saying it's a "strain that spreads between humans".

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Extreme_Put_913 May 7, 2026 +2

I think cruise ships "reuse" air onboard so I feel like air transmission is cranked up to 100 in this situation. I also remember reading human-to-human transmission and someone else wrote that too so I feel like its a perfect condition to spread.

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Jumpy-Coffee-Cat May 6, 2026 +4

Cruise ships have strict reporting requirements, it’s also a (relatively) self contained location, so when something like this happens it gets blasted out into the news. The WHO estimates between 10k and 100k cases globally per year, yet you don’t see that in the news but here we have ~13 cases on a cruise ship and it’s everywhere.

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Fern-ando May 5, 2026 +66

Surely nothing bad could happend... Is not like Canarian medical personal is already overworked.

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Pineapple-Pizzaz May 5, 2026 +22

"Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen"

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Hefty_Musician2402 May 6, 2026 +1

Everything’s computer!

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kortisol May 5, 2026 +11

Thank God they are not priests with ebola

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Black_Otter May 5, 2026 +19

Oh that’s nice. I heard it’s lovely this time of year

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sonia72quebec May 5, 2026 +18

Is there a vaccine against this?

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White_Null May 6, 2026 +22

No vaccines exist for Andes virus infection.

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alcabazar May 6, 2026 +32

Would it matter? We can't stop people from drinking raw milk, let alone take the vaccines we already have for preventable diseases.

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bussymonke May 6, 2026 +11

Yes, it would matter for the people who want it

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misszoei May 6, 2026 +8

I’m calling it now - people will be evacuated and the boat will be scuttled. No one will want to take on the responsibility for this, especially after Covid.

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LiterallyJoeStalin May 5, 2026 +51

Here’s the ship’s website: https://oceanwide-expeditions.com/our-fleet/m-v-hondius > This means that when you sail aboard Hondius, you get to enjoy the exotic landscapes and wildlife as much as possible while impacting them as little as possible. Guess the wildlife got a little *too* exotic.

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LowRepresentative291 May 6, 2026 +5

You're not impacting the wildlife, the wildlife is impacting you!

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Cl0verSueHipple May 6, 2026 +11

Hill I will die on: this and several other reasons why I’ll NEVER get on a cruise ship. Perfectly happy living the rest of my life traveling via car, foot, and plane (and an occasional ferry). I’ve never had any desire to go on a cruise and this validates my instincts.

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_DauT May 6, 2026 +7

"they're sending us to hantavirus island to catch hantavirus. I wish were were going to the canary islands." "What do they have there?" "Hantavirus, but it's on a boat."

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hesdeadjim1434 May 5, 2026 +20

Note to self: cancel Canary islands trip.

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MedicalDisscharge May 5, 2026 +30

They got the upgrade in plague inc

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That-Advance-9619 May 6, 2026 +12

The world didn't help the Canary Islands with the eruption we had in 2021, yet we gotta deal with this cruise ship that we have NOTHING to do, not to mention that we are underprepared. That's great.

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CheesecakeEither8220 May 6, 2026 +6

I sincerely hope that your islands are supported with the appropriate medical supplies and personnel!

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vixiefern May 6, 2026 +1

At least the ship hasnt arrived there yet, its still sitting anchored off the port of Praia. Has been there for several days already without moving https://www.myshiptracking.com/?mmsi=244327000

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No_Opportunity1934 May 7, 2026 +1

Either that, or it goes to a port in mainland Europe putting hundreds of millions at risk. You do the math.

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PlumpHughJazz May 5, 2026 +16

Perfect Dead Rising setting.

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UrsaMajor7th May 6, 2026 +3

If the canary dies, they scuttle the ship.

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cravingnoodles May 6, 2026 +7

Put a giant dome over the islands

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VaginaBurner69 May 5, 2026 +9

The real captain now is whoever brought the thermometer.

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whiskeytown79 May 5, 2026 +11

Isn't hantavirus communicated by rodents, and not human-human contact? Evacuating the people who are already sick and then sending the environment that got them sick with thousands of other people still onboard to a new location is an insane response. Everyone should be offboarded and the ship quarantined and cleaned. Edit: it has come to light that this particular strain of hantavirus can transfer from human to human, a detail which was not present in the article at the time of this comment, but has been added since. Also, this particular cruise ship is much smaller than I had thought, and is more like 150 people than thousands.

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Pineapple-Pizzaz May 5, 2026 +52

Normally, yes. But I've heard speculation that there may be a strain from South Africa that can be person to person. *edit* I meant South America. Thank you for correcting

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Only--East May 5, 2026 +43

South America* which is where the ship left from.

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unicornviolence May 6, 2026 +20

Andes Virus which comes from Argentina (where the ship was 3 weeks ago).

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Ancient_Sound_5347 May 5, 2026 +37

The person to person strain occured on the cruise ship. They are doing contact tracing amongst airline passengers who were on the same flight as the two cruise ship passengers who sought medical attention in South Africa. So far nothing has been reporterd.

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FreeWilly1337 May 6, 2026 +31

That doesn’t sound familiar at all.

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teh_maxh May 6, 2026 +10

WHO is assuming person-to-person transmission is possible as a precaution. Since there is a known strain from Argentina (which is where the ship departed) that is transmissible person-to-person, it's more than just a theoretical possibility, but it has not been confirmed.

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Only--East May 5, 2026 +5

South America* which is where the ship left from.

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cunfabuloust May 6, 2026 +8

Aside: there's about 150 people on board.

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CubitsTNE May 6, 2026 +3

It's poop cruise 2: when nature calls

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reasonably_plausible May 6, 2026 +1

>Isn't hantavirus communicated by rodents, and not human-human contact? From the linked article: >A rare strain of hantavirus, **which has been known to spread between people in close contact**, has been found in patients linked to a deadly outbreak on a Dutch cruise ship.

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whiskeytown79 May 6, 2026 +1

This article has changed since I read it then, that definitely wasn't in the first sentence or headline when I first opened it. Note the time on the article is "6h ago" (as of now) whereas my comment is from 18h ago.

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karma_the_sequel May 6, 2026 +5

Soon to be known as the Canary In A Coal Mine Islands.

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frank1934 May 5, 2026 +5

So what does this paywall article say?

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pmacnayr May 5, 2026 +8

Cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak to sail to Canary Islands…

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Interesting-Risk6446 May 8, 2026 +1

I've seen this movie before.

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Nice_juggers May 9, 2026 +1

H***** virus is crazy the nerds are super spreaders

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supercali45 May 10, 2026 +1

Good thing the USA left the WHO

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