“Given the incubation period of the hantavirus, which can be up to six weeks, it is possible that more cases may be reported”, says World Health Organization

My city is hosting.

$3k for the game ticket, $75k for the US hospital stay.

Don't worry, I'm sure someone extremely competent is in charge of public health in the US. Its not like they'd put a heroin junky in charge right

Maybe the fascism scaring away traveling fans was a good thing after all.

Shieeeeeeeeeeeet

Thankfully we have steady hands on the ship of state! ....oh

I live in one of the cities. Please cancel this super spreader event. Otherwise im f****** fleeing the country f*** that Edit: its over a month long??? Bro f*** this shit!

WHO still says that she may test positive in the coming weeks. It's not guaranteed yet.

It was the same with Covid, people tested negative for the first week and then got a positive 

Why are we even testing people. Those numbers go to 0 if we don't test.

Now where have I seen this before

I lived in a small, rural Northern California for a number of years. Where I lived, we were in the mountains. If it wasn't for the ticks which carried Lyme and deceptively cute deer mice that carried Hanta - it would have been one of the safest places I've ever been in my life. We were all well aware of both diseases, and the local and regional health clinics were well-prepared to deal with each. Example: I once had the dread bulls-eye develop on my leg, and had to go on Doxycycline for 30 days. Obtaining it was as easy as the physician slapping a bottle in my hand and warning me to stay out of sun light. Deer mice were everywhere and got into everything unless extraordinary measures were taken. Well, our dear neighbour decided to just sweep out and clean his storage shed but forgot his mask.. so he said f*** it. He was out of commission for 2 weeks with little ability to care for himself. When I finally saw him, he not only looked wrung out (thin, pale, fatigued) but his eyes... holy f***.. they were two, bloody little cherries that floated in his thin face. He said he almost died and had never been in more pain, nor been more sick. He got himself a proper N95 after that and never FAFO again. His luck was super bad because very, very few people catch it over a 10-year period (in that area) - like almost none. I absolutely can't imagine what would have happened if this guy could have transmitted what he had to others :-/ https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/CountyofExposureforReportedHantavirus.pdf

Reminds me of Covid just before March break 2020. Everyone calm down! Nothing to see!  Suddenly after March break we're closing the schools. 

January 2020 vibes

Exactly. And we have all seen this show before.

Who are the fuckers who let everyone off the cruiseship because they had no symptoms

Also they are publicizing a 6 week incubation instead of the 8 week that is generally accepted. Seems like bad and stupid intentions

Yep, every article I’ve seen about it seems to indicate that it’s more out of control than before. Awesome.

With an up to 8 week incubation, that's where the problem lies.

That's the problem with this Hantavirus, Andes version, people start spreading it and feeling sick at the very same time. So there can be at least 1 day or 2 where they feel barely sick at all, mark it as a common cold, and go about there day infecting people via close contact. It can be spread via humans as the genome markup showed in the 2018 Argentina outbreak. It may not linger in the air as long as Sars-Cov2 or Measles can for hours but it can still be spread through droplets and aersol.  Same with the 1996 outbreak where doctors noticed victims were not in contact with rodents or the virus resevoir/origin point. But the little data we have supposedly shows that it's R0 doesn't remain the same after a couple of human hops and begins to get weaker after multiple infections, so maybe it can stay as a dead zoo virus with high mortality rate not meant for humans. The incubation period and latency median period are the same amount of time of 18 days. Unless it mutates? The most important part I am wondering about is that it becomes infectious and contagious at the same time people have the onset of sickness. And we know many people either will still go to their jobs, social gatherings, etc if they feel only slightly sick, and that's when this Hantavirus is the most infectious. It probably will not be another pandemic. But I also wonder why they let 40 people get off the cruise to go out and travel freely wherever they went right after some died of an "unknown" mystery sickness.

The extended incubation rate would make it a potential disaster under this administration... and its hostility towards caution and the medical industry. All the pieces for a perfect storm disaster are now in place. Let's hope the worst doesn't play out at this particular moment. But if this were a movie...

We are only 1/3 of the way through his term. 

Given his administration's irrational antagonism against established health science, it's weird that it's *only* happened twice.

God striking us with plagues for “our” ignorance

I think the world is more connected now because people travel so much more, which makes frequent pandemics more likely. We’ve seen major outbreaks about every five years recently: Swine flu in 2009, Ebola in 2014, and COVID-19 in 2019.

There is no hantavirus in Bah Sing Se.

He will slowly croak his way through the press conference'

He will say he’s not sure how many untold people will die the from vaccine if they develop one while also saying don’t trust me I’m not a health expert or a doctor when it comes time to implement any useful countermeasures. When it’s time to be anti science, he’s an expert. When it’s time to listen to actual experts and scientists, he’s certain these vaccines have killed untold millions… an inanimate object would be a safer bet than him in any position of power regarding public health.

Don't worry, he'll treat it with raw milk and racoon roadkill.

Not til china starts sped building hospitals again

No, this virus burns much hotter than covid and isn't as easily transmissible. However no death from this should br dismissed.

No. This isn’t a similar situation to Covid. This hantavirus (Andes virus) is not a new virus, there are generally 100-200 cases a year in Argentina and have been for decades.   People with it also aren’t contagious until they start showing symptoms, thankfully. 

Probably closer to SARS1 outbreak in 2003 than SARS2 in 2019.

The passengers got off before it was known that hantavirus was the culprit. The cruise is a polar adventure style cruise that has legs of the journey people can do. Some will do bye whole journey and others will get off at different stages. 30 people got off on St Helena island on the 24th of April (including patient 0 who died on the 11th of April after becoming sick on the 6th). I believe at that point the second round of illness had only just started.

This is what I can't understand, it was contained on the boat, why did they just let everyone go

We’re in great hands! /s

Maybe we could get some b-tier celebs sing a song, would that help?

At least we have career health officials like Dr. Fauci... Nevermind.

Yeah but at least the president doesn't have a weird laugh, right?

It's not a coincidence that every time America elects the anti-Christ, Pestilence returns.

It is all on purpose, the rich want to cull the flock just in time for Ai to do the jobs of the killed off poors. Class warfare 

I really hate this timeline. >The Trump administration has scrapped all full-time civilian inspectors responsible for cruise ship hygiene during an unprecedented spike in Norovirus outbreaks. Under the direction of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, the CDC Vessel Sanitation Programme (VSP) has been gutted of its professional civilian workforce. This move leaves a skeleton crew of just 12 officers to monitor the health and safety of millions of international travellers. The CDC cruise ship inspection cuts come at a critical moment, as a highly transmissible new strain of norovirus triggers a record number of gastrointestinal incidents on major vessels.

Due to the nature of transmission, this is very unlikely to cause another pandemic. Keep an eye on it for sure, there's little reason to panic.

> Human-to-human transmission was first reported in an outbreak in 1996 in El Bolsón, Argentina. Since then, sporadic outbreaks with reported person-to-person transmission have occurred. Most important part.

in space

You should be doing that anyways, tbh.

If 2026 had a sound..

Yes, there are different strains. This Andes strain is the only Hantavirus that can spread from human to human, though it's said not to be very infectious, even though fatality rate is about 40% The most common Hantavirus in my country is the Puumala strain, its fatality rate is less than 1% and it's spread by bank voles

Yeah, I think people are just a bit paranoid post-Covid. In reality, even with human-to-human transmission, Hantavirus doesn't spread effectively enough to cause a pandemic. I definitely empathize with people, but I wish we could put our energy and concern into something that \*does\* have a massive impact, like neglected tropical diseases.

Major cities in Canada, the US and Mexico are going to be inundated with international travelers next month for the World Cup...

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This news isnt new news.