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News & Current Events May 7, 2026 at 11:28 AM

KLM flight attendant hospitalised with suspected hantavirus

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KLM flight attendant hospitalised with suspected hantavirus - DutchNews.nl
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KLM flight attendant hospitalised with suspected hantavirus - DutchNews.nl
A KLM air stewardess has been hospitalised with hantavirus symptoms, according to the ministry of health. The woman was briefly in contact with one of the Dutch people that died after contracting the virus late last month. That person had boarded a KLM flight in South Africa but was deemed too ill to fly and removed from the plane shortly after. The flight attendant is said to have mild symptoms and is in isolation at Amsterdam UMC, where she is...
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AnotherHavanesePlz 4 days ago +1407
I have Pfizer stock this time, so the virus prob won’t take off.
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little_wrek 4 days ago +492
Out of every comment on this post this one is BY FAR the most comforting.
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Big_Judgment3824 3 days ago +66
With this admin? Bro you're better putting your money into raw milk. 
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SmallRocks 4 days ago +6464
>”The flight attendant is said to have mild symptoms and is in isolation at Amsterdam UMC, where she is being tested for the virus.” To be clear, she’s been hospitalized for suspected minor symptoms. She has not tested positive for the virus as of yet.
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Domestiicated-Batman 4 days ago +1783
Yea, the hope is that she contracted something else much less severe and dangerous from another passenger or maybe already had something before the plane even took off
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hockey_chic 4 days ago +1942
Oh look another potential pandemic with the same idiot in charge that did such a great job with the last pandemic.
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lilb1190 4 days ago +1393
Dont worry, this time its different. This time we have RFK Jr.
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Nervous_Ad_6998 4 days ago +613
Gonna have to inject ourselves with dead raccoon penises instead of ivermectin.
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miregalpanic 4 days ago +164
Jokes on you, that is my kink
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SteveL_VA 4 days ago +138
Edit: gravelly voice: "So we're going to recommend everyone get a blended spinach enema. The health benefits of enemas and spinach are well documented, so we've combined the two. You can purchase a Trump-brand Enema kit today at whitehouse dot gov."
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hotpuck6 4 days ago +56
This is complete bullshit. They would sell it on trumpRX, not whitehouse dot gov.
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Owain-X 4 days ago +146
As a bonus the mortality rate for covid was 1.19% in the US. For Hantavirus it's 30-40%.
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Live-Pea4081 4 days ago +88
Transmission is much harder to accomplish though. 
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rsneary129 4 days ago +100
Not if a flight attendant caught it from interacting with a person in the departure gate. Obviously we need more information, but we can't just assume that this is going to behave like other hanta virus infections when there is evidence that suggests otherwise
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iforgotmyuserr 4 days ago +75
It wasn’t at the departure gate. The passenger got on the flight but was noticeably ill, and multiple passengers and staff (including that flight attendant) had to help her off the flight because she couldn’t walk on her own. It’s still definitely worrying though.
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SSSprings0808 4 days ago +53
I wonder if the CDC, or whatever is left of the organization, is tracking all those other passengers, especially the people who physically touched her to help her off the plane. This is where we need skilled workers, not just friends who got a job from the orange dictator.
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Ultimatedream 3 days ago +7
Yes, the Dutch healthcare organization GGD has already tracked down and informed all passengers.
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Positive_Lychee_7736 4 days ago +181
lol, if there is a god, it’s safe to assume he just hates us all lmao, gives us two pandemics with the worlds biggest narcissistic brain melted moron in charge
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AqueductMosaic 4 days ago +68
The sad thing is that he would be loved by a majority of the people if he issued an executive order to provide universal healthcare or at a minimum free vaccinations. Unfortunately, it appears that not only is he a narcissist, but a sadist as well.
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TheDesktopNinja 4 days ago +107
I always said during COVID all he had to do was defer to the experts then claim the credit later. Would've been a win/win 🤷‍♂️ But no.
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Mobile-Shallot930 4 days ago +66
He could have sold so many Trump-branded face masks. He's such a bad businessman lol
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GuardianAlien 4 days ago +19
Exactly!! Literally the easiest win for any (corrupt) government like his, but he's such a narcissistic ass that he wouldn't accept that someone else might know more than him. We all know how many MAGA morons would have bought the branded face masks and TP too.
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Intelligent_Sundae_5 4 days ago +44
I firmly believe that his mishandling of Covid is what caused his loss in 2020. It was just enough to push Biden to the win.
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DwayneWashington 4 days ago +30
Universal healthcare isn't going to give him a billion dollars and a made up award
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dede280492 4 days ago +276
If I as a hypochondriac would know I had contact with a person that has virus that’s omnipresent in the news I would have all the symptoms that would match the virus lol Edit: confirmed she does not have hantavirus so my assumption was right lol
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EntropicReaver 4 days ago +42
i cleaned up some rat droppings on some soil outside with a plastic bag the other day.... desperately trying not to work myself into a panic attack even though i know its extremely unlikely....
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Jingle_Cat 4 days ago +39
Not sure of your area, but we have old houses around me and plenty of mice. Hantavirus is very rare.
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2Fawt2Walk 4 days ago +118
Initial hantavirus symptoms are so unspecific that it could really be anything. Hopefully this is all being done out of an abundance of caution…
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boat_hamster 4 days ago +339
Yeah. While there is a very small possibility that it has mutated to jump between humans more easily. More likely, the attendant has likely picked up a cold or flu, and authorities are just acting out of an abundance of caution.
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No-Stage-4583 4 days ago +177
its not mutated, its a thing the andean variant does. ANDV is communicable human to human without a mutation, it can do it out of the box. Most other Hantas are not, but ANDV is.
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xvf9 4 days ago +92
My understanding is even the Andean variant is not so contagious that you would expect it to spread from incidental contact. Either it has mutated again to be more transmissible or the flight attendant has picked up something else in the intervening two weeks since contact. My suspicion is that it’s the second, because if had become extremely transmissible then there’d be way more cases on the ship. 
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DriveSlowHomie 4 days ago +49
It's not very transmissible, but once an a while you do have a super spreader event, where the R0 goes up to like 2.2. But in regular circumstances is much lower. Look into the 2018-2019 outbreak in Argentina, one person basically spread it to a bunch of people in close contact at a birthday party. But after that, it pretty much fizzled out.
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HotspurJr 4 days ago +28
I was digging into this last night, and it sounds like there is about a day when the virus is extremely contagious, when the fever pops up. There were a pair of superspreader events (a birthday party, and a funeral) where several people got it, including one who only spent a couple of minutes with the sick person. It sounds like if the person on the flight was on their high-contagious day, we'd be unsurprised if several more people came down with it. If not, then we would be surprised if anyone got it.
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thesonoftheson 4 days ago +24
What is the burn out on this? Like ebola that it burns fast so it is easier to contain or we talking like COVID the perfect storm?
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relative_void 4 days ago +34
* Long non-infectious incubation period (typically ~2 weeks but as long as 8 or as short as 1) * Prodromal (symptoms start to show to bad symptoms start) infectious period. In this phase only very close contact infections have been observed like seat neighbors on a 14 hour bus ride or sharing a bed for multiple nights. * In some cases a 24 hour more infectious period with fever has been observed. This was in the 2018 outbreak where there were three “superspreader” events that resulted in 21 out of the 34 cases in the outbreak. * In that same outbreak, only three hospital staff were infected out of more than 80 that cared for the ill despite using minimal PPE while caring for the patients.
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cjo20 4 days ago +28
The Andean variant doesn’t jump easily between people though. The reports are that it requires things like “sharing a bed” level of contact. For it to be a COVID level problem it would need to mutate to be more communicable.
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relative_void 4 days ago +30
Even in the 2018 outbreak that had three “superspreader” events there were a grand total of 34 people infected. ANDV simply doesn’t have the same virulence as something like COVID or the flu.
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qwertyalguien 4 days ago +75
Agree. They are being cautious. Andes Hanta isn't so contagious, and the amount of human cases is too low to make such a mutation more likely.
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ninjagorilla 4 days ago +57
Yes people don’t really internalize the differnt infectiousness different diseases have. Measles will get the whole plane sick, someone with active \*tb might not get a single other person in the plane sick
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Airk640 4 days ago +78
Tv actors make everyone sick.
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obeytheturtles 4 days ago +34
Except Walton Goggins. He's awesome.
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rclonecopymove 4 days ago +28
Where do other types of actors sit with regard to infectiousness?  Is R⁰ related to IMDB rating?
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PowerfulWind7230 4 days ago +8
She was briefly with the wife of the first fatality who died. This Andes variant is spread person to person. 23 people got off the plane a couple of weeks ago before hantavirus onboard was known. One is in a Zurich Hospital now. Some flew to California, Arizona, and Georgia. This particular virus can take up to eight weeks to show infection. The WHO is trying to contact everybody onboard those same planes.
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pIant_princess 4 days ago +63
Live tracking of the MV Atlantic Star hantavirus outbreak — cases, transmission chains & contact tracing. https://hantavirus.replit.app/
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Moneygrowsontrees 4 days ago +63
I am uncomfortable with how much this looks like a pandemic/plague style video game. But, this is awesome work.
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tlst9999 4 days ago +18
It hasn't reached Madagascar yet.
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LordCheezus 4 days ago +7
Their borders are already closed, same with Greenland.
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ShortBrownAndUgly 4 days ago +32
What sad is that we cannot expect our own government to provide reliable data. They’d rather hide it. Plus they cleared out a good chunk of the CDC anyway
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Successful-Bobcat701 4 days ago +39
She's been hospitalized for suspected Hanta virus infection, not because of her current symptoms.
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NKD_WA 4 days ago +1696
Contrary to what some other people are saying in this thread, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say a hantavirus outbreak is not going to be the next COVID, and people can just buy the normal amount of toilet paper going forward. Feel free to call me out later if I'm wrong.
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GottaUseEmAll 4 days ago +375
I'm noting your username so that when I'm sitting on the john, wiping my ass with newspaper, I can come back and shake my proverbial fist at you. (Just kidding, I think you're correct in your assessment)
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NKD_WA 4 days ago +59
You have newspaper?!
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Slim_Charles 4 days ago +235
Hantavirus is not nearly as contagious as Covid, and its deadliness works against its transmissibility. It's a scary virus for sure, but very unlikely to become an epidemic, let alone a pandemic.
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Chillark 4 days ago +76
Very true but don't put it past the people in charge to make not only the wrong choices but the worst choices that make it even worse. With these morons, anythings possible.
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thinspirit 4 days ago +40
Yeah, the nature of it alone makes it harder to transmit through casual contact and it's fast and deadly. The first SARS didn't spread because it was too deadly. People got so sick they couldn't go around spreading it. Hospitals got hit the worst but it didn't really spread to the broader population.
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HammyUK 4 days ago +26
Yes people fail to realise we have had epidemics since Covid none of which turned into something as serious (e.g. monkeypox). Although monkeypox if recall was abated due to the strong uptake of vaccines in the gay community…doubt we will see such a strong uptake that if hantavirus does become an explosive respiratory spreader.
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possibly_oblivious 4 days ago +2766
Toilet paper... I have to go buy all the toilet paper right now
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Alexandaross 4 days ago +522
I now live on the streets because i'm using my house to store all my toilet paper.
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velvethead 4 days ago +140
You're lucky to have street! I live in a gravel pit because I parked so many vans full of toilet paper on my street after my house filled up.
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leviathab13186 4 days ago +65
F*** that. Buy up all the bidets
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Portlyhooper15 4 days ago +30
People didn’t invest in bidets after the last debacle!?
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regeya 4 days ago +45
Brace yourselves, the political critters are already gnashing their teeth about a "Plandemic" Kinda incredible that people in power can't stop those pesky elites from releasing a virus, which helps one political party here in the US, somehow
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jared__ 4 days ago +4367
i'm so glad we learned our lesson. it will be so much better this time...
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MarauderMoriarty 4 days ago +964
If only, unfortunately we are in the time of professionally stepping on rakes.
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dontwannaparticpate 4 days ago +660
As an American (who believes in science and democracy) it is pretty frightening that we are no longer a part of WHO and we had 7 citizens on that flight. F*** me.
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MarauderMoriarty 4 days ago +412
It's even worse for your country because you have RFK jr and Trump who would be managing it (as I understand it as a non-American). Edit: he also cut off a racoon p****. RIP to the normal people in America that have to deal with these people.
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BoredNuke 4 days ago +150
We will be fine its not like its anything serious like measles. Its just the a strain of hanta virus that passes between humans easily. The best brains and brain worms are on it.
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idkwhatimbrewin 4 days ago +104
Bleach kills viruses. Is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. UV light also can be harmful to viruses. We should try bringing the light inside the body or hitting the body with tremendous UV light. I don't think they have tested that but it seems like a smart idea
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margiiiwombok 4 days ago +39
My god, if but anything Trump will surely go down in history as the most consistently (daily) ridiculous and shockingly absurd president. I literally have forgotten about quotes like this one, purely because he said so many batshit insane things and made such outrageously backwards decisions on the reg... We're living through some wild times, people.
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DefinitionForsaken34 4 days ago +40
I'm not sure, let me stare directly into the sun, maybe that will help.
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unafraidrabbit 4 days ago +7
He stared at an eclipse. The ring around the sun is called the corona because it looks like a crown. Just like the virus. He burnt a corona shaped blind spot into his retina. Remember how he said nobody could have seen this coming? He literally couldn't see it coming.
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MarauderMoriarty 4 days ago +45
Hanta virus infected rat 🤝 RFK brain worm
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Violet_Paradox 4 days ago +85
If there's a widespread pandemic, there is a very real concern that when a vaccine is finally developed, it would be outright banned in the US. Obviously the rich would still secretly have access because they don't actually believe their own lies, but banned for the average person.
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CaballoenPelo 4 days ago +34
Don’t worry RFK will go on tv and freebase a line of rat feces to show Hantavirus is a hoax
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ice-eight 4 days ago +145
Nobody will die of Hantavirus in the US Officially Because the Department of HHS will declare that all Hantavirus deaths are actually caused by the Covid vaccine.
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Correct_Inspection25 4 days ago +26
Was going to laugh, and then realized this is exactly what will happen if this turns out to have a high Rt factor. If it helps, the Darwin Award will abide, and it will have an outsized impact on those who ignore EU standards. Gonna start filling my The Road Shopping cart just in case.
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baseketball 4 days ago +58
Good thing we voted out the guy that fucked up the response for the last pandemic.
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HereForTheComments57 4 days ago +57
Why are they bothering testing? No testing, no virus!
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Vinral 4 days ago +25
Don't worry we have the perfectly health RFK in charge of our health. Its not like they gutted the CDC under the Trump admin and make uneducated decisions......oh god......we are fucked.
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PurpleV93 4 days ago +41
The "funny" thing is, during Covid, healthcare workers had been suffering so much with the burden of this international threat and people dying left and right. And the only recognition they got was some people clapping for them, while others called it all a hoax, spreading anti-vaxx nonsense and neonazi conspiracy shit. Many of them would probably throw the towel and quit on the spot, if we end up with another pandemic. People couldn't even wear some masks to protect themselves & others. Let alone getting a vaccine that was scientifically proven to be very effective. Many ordinary citizens will be even dumber than the first time. Acting all defiant like a bratty little child and innocent people will have to die for it, again.
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Local-Finance8389 4 days ago +15
I’m a physician who is now retired but if I wasn’t, yes, I would quit immediately. People do not understand what it was like for healthcare workers.
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whop94 4 days ago +7
Nurse here, don't think I can do it again, I think that's going to be a common sentiment.
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Affectionate-Print81 4 days ago +47
I am prepared to stay inside and catch up on my game library. This time I won't be going to any funerals. That's how I caught COVID last time.
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taz_78 4 days ago +15
30-50% lethality rate, probably just have big bonfires.
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Koakie 4 days ago +24
Two maybe three months ago I heard an interview on BNR radio. The guy said basically all the lessons learned from covid, the plans to restructure the health care system and build up spare capacity so we could deal with another pandemic have gone into the prullenbak. We have less IC beds available now compared to back then.
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BONEPILLTIMEEE 4 days ago +208
Unironically yeah. Luckily for us (and unluckily for the immunocompromised and elderly who died from the virus) COVID 19 has a relatively low lethality of about 0.1% and less than that for healthy young persons. Andes Hantavirus has a far higher lethality rate of between 30 to 50% so people will take it far more seriously if it ever threatens to spread rapidly.  The COVID pandemic has antivaxxers because they (mistakenly) think that the side effects of the vaccine is worse than the low lethality of the virus. There will be far fewer people thinking like that with a virus that has up to a coinflips chance of killing you.
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9447044 4 days ago +488
You super undervalue how little people care when its not specifically them. "Maybe if they all die, I can afford a house" was a quote I heard alot during covid.
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chronicallyillsyl 4 days ago +30
I was horrified during the pandemic every time I heard someone say "It will only affect the elderly and disabled, everyone else would be fine." The idea that lives are less valuable when its someone who's elderly or disabled was so prevalent and still is. Over and over they'd say it, as though elderly and disabled people weren't hearing those words. Why is my life unimportant because I'm disabled? Why is my mom's life unimportant because she's elderly? Why should we be okay with people dying as long as it's not happening to healthy, young people? Every day that goes by, people become more selfish and the world crumbles a little bit more. I hope that Hantavirus doesn't continue to spread, but we live in the dumbest timeline so I don't have much faith left in humanity.
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secret_identity_too 4 days ago +40
My coworker actually said "as long as it's not my grandmother I don't care" during Covid. And this was after he spent October to December 2019 terrified of the virus he was reading about online that was spreading in China. Once Trump said it was nothing, he didn't care anymore. It was WILD.
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1877KlownsForKids 4 days ago +74
Historically speaking we are due for a generation flush. 
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br0ck 4 days ago +35
Historically speaking the generation that gets flushed might be 20-40 year-olds. The flu in 1918-1919 killed 50 to 100 million of them.
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secretaccount94 4 days ago +10
That was one notable instance where a virus was worst for healthy prime-age adults. Most of the time, viruses are much worse for kids and elderly.
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BoredNuke 4 days ago +19
I always assumed covid was like the goldilocks zone for stupid people to underestimate it while ebola is horrific enough that it gets taken seriously by everyone. After the last decade I actually don't think any virus will be taken seriously over the misinformation that will be eaten up.
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Charlie_Mouse 4 days ago +14
Judging by COVID there could be a real world zombie outbreak and you’d have grifters telling people that invermectin could cure it along with morons holding “bite parties” for their kids to “build their immune systems”. Along with the Trump administration refusing to enact immediate public health measures because they assume it will kill off Dem voters in the cities more than their own rural voting base.
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DrAtario 4 days ago +100
You are doubting the stupidity of humanity. COVID spread due to the selfishness of people, misinformation, and greed. I know there would be a specific bunch of people who would see that 30-50% as a hoax.
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fancywinky 4 days ago +45
Bold of you to assume anyone will take this more seriously
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Foucaultshadow1 4 days ago +23
I think you are grossly overestimating what the part of “sacrifice grandma and grandpa” will do in order to keep anyone safe.
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ResonanceThruWallz 4 days ago +2514
World Cup is next month super spreader event!
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crisscrossed 4 days ago +590
Oh god. So glad my state is hosting.
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gmoss101 4 days ago +307
My f****** city is hosting 😁😁😁
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mahouza 4 days ago +59
Same, and everybody here including me uses public transit...
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gmoss101 4 days ago +24
I ride the bus here in Houston most of the week 😁
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Ear_Enthusiast 4 days ago +226
> super spreader event! I legit forgot that this term existed. At the height of Covid, probably summer 2020, my in-laws went to a wedding with about 200 people there. Like 40-50 people got Covid. I know of at least one person from that event died from Covid, but for some reason I think it was 2 or 3 all together that died. My in-laws were furious that we wouldn't let them visit for two weeks after the wedding, even though we wanted them ahead of time that this would be the case. Then in the aftermath the entire wedding blamed the venue for the virus spreading like wildfire. I saw the pics. ZERO masks. ZERO social distancing. That's my closest encounter with a super spreader event.
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nazbot 4 days ago +25
A coworker who was Republican went to a wedding. After he talked about how SO many people (including him) got covid. All expect the one person wearing a mask. Gee you think?
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wildflowerhonies 4 days ago +83
We went to Mardi Gras 2020, right before everything kicked off in the US and before we understood what a superspreader was. To this day, I feel incredibly lucky that no one in my family caught it, given that multiple people who were at the same parades as us died from COVID.
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C__S__S 4 days ago +33
New Orleans got hit so hard, too. At one point (I’m not sure this stat held), NOLA had the highest mortality rate of the covid pandemic.
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guiltandgrief 4 days ago +29
Yep. This is exactly how we lost family in 2020. A f****** wedding. My uncle & his wife both caught it. She recovered but he didn't. One of my cousins caught it, was okay, but took it home to her husband and he died. Family still argues about whether this was wedding-related or he caught it elsewhere, to make her feel better. Both of the brides parents caught it and her mom died and her dad had a stroke and is still in assisted living. Whole bridal party went down with it and one of the bridesmaids was actively sick as a dog during the wedding but "it was just a cold." The sick one lost her mom to it after. The grooms father died. One of the groomsmen died. Have no idea how many people died that weren't directly involved in the wedding. No masks. No social distancing. Buffet style dinner party.
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FeatureSimilar7563 3 days ago +7
Wtf those are insane numbers :(
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jsm1031 4 days ago +238
If she in fact got Andes Hanta from casual contact, that will change the game. Hoping for her sake it is not.
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cannotfoolowls 4 days ago +87
Latest news is 2/3 people who had symptoms after direct contact on the KLM flight have tested negative, the third person is still waiting for their results. https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/update-hantavirus Also the article seems to imply it wasn't that casual of contact. edit: third one also tested negative
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HatAvailable5702 4 days ago +32
23 People disembarked the Hondius onto St. Helena's between the 22 of April and the 24 of April. It was docked for two days. The only flight that left the island was on the 25 of April to Johannesburg, Airlink Flight 4Z132. The french guy **could have** caught the virus on that flight. It's possible there were multiple infected from the cruise ship on that flight bc St. Helena's only gets one flight per week. The dutch lady that died, arrived in the airport at around 9pm that night. Very sick. And she had a layover of about 2 hours at the Johannesburg airport, absolutely sweating and spreading the entire time. She got on the plane to the Netherlands around 11pm on April 25, and was removed because she was clearly going to explode. The she died the next day at the hospital.
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Acceptable_Foot3370 4 days ago +206
Hard to believe all this is happening just because two tourists from the boat decided to go to a huge garbage rat-infested dump in Argentina and watch the seagulls
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martapap 4 days ago +95
That sounds fitting for the beginning of an apocalypse movie. 
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Auriga33 4 days ago +40
They couldn’t go the beach or something to watch seagulls? Heck, they could’ve even gone to their local department store’s parking lot.
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Drewsifer1979 4 days ago +42
Really!? Is that what happened? I had not heard that.
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CellistMundane9372 3 days ago +36
It doesn't help that the woman then decided to try to fly home to Amsterdam from Johannesburg while she was so sick she needed a wheelchair. I think that's incredibly selfish, and any victims who may have caught the illness from her in Johannesburg should sue her estate.
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isses_halt_scheisse 3 days ago +19
Oh man, people are endlessly selfish! A friend and their partner got sick overseas during Covid times and decided to "quickly fly back so that we don't get stuck in the foreign country in quarantine". So they both took a long haul flight with clear symptoms. I was so mad at them!
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DragonHalfFreelance 4 days ago +852
I really thought bird flu was gonna be the next one…….
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Arctic_Chilean 4 days ago +365
So did many health experts before COVID popped up.  
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asheraddict 4 days ago +120
There have been bird flu outbreaks since covid
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jackp0t789 4 days ago +86
Not sustained human to human outbreaks
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CruisinJo214 4 days ago +67
That’s because we’re still waiting on human to human transmission to evolve…. Basically a ticking time bomb at this point.
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Arctic_Chilean 4 days ago +16
But none have been a strain that can easily spread between people. That is the primary risk here: a strain capable of strong human-to-human transmission. 
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MadRaymer 4 days ago +12
There was a lot of research after the initial SARS outbreak in the early 2000s that concluded a global pandemic was inevitable.
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MoltresRising 4 days ago +48
Hantavirus is significantly less contagious and has a much higher mortality rate, so the risk of broad pandemic is basically 0 (not 0, but wildly low). Not super comforting, but the contagious part should be the focus.
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Quixotic_Seal 4 days ago +12
I mean, that's literally what is concerning if this attendant got Hantavirus. She should *not* have it, if this strain is as contagious as we think it is.
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Scrutinizer 4 days ago +294
Perfect timing for a World Cup held in a nation where public health is led by an insane anti-vax smackhead.
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Dependent_Rain_4800 4 days ago +56
There will be no testing so things will be fine.
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mynameisnotsparta 4 days ago +76
Update: **KLM flight attendant hospitalized after contact with hantavirus cruise ship passenger** *\*\*Update 10:13 a.m. - Article updated to add the latest information about medical evacuations in the bottom six paragraphs.\*\** A KLM flight attendant from Haarlem has been hospitalized due to a possible hantavirus infection. \*\*She came into contact with the 69-year-old Dutch woman who died of the virus in Johannesburg, South Africa.\*\* The flight attendant is in isolation at Amsterdam UMC with mild symptoms. She is currently being tested for the hantavirus, the Ministry of Public Health confirmed to [RTL Nieuws](https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binnenland/artikel/5598785/nederlandse-stewardess-ziekenhuis-amsterdam-na-contact-met). Human to human transmission. Long incubation. Possibly asymptomatic. [https://hantavirus.replit.app/mobile](https://hantavirus.replit.app/mobile) What the hell are we looking at here? Index case. Dutch female passenger aboard MV Hondius. Disembarked at Saint Helena on April 24 with gastrointestinal symptoms. Boarded Airlink flight 4Z 301 (SHN→JNB) on April 25 — condition deteriorated in-flight. Died upon arrival at Johannesburg hospital emergency department; tested positive for hantavirus there. WHO initiated contact tracing for all 82 passengers and 6 crew on that flight. Andes-strain hantavirus confirmed. Husband (P002) died on the ship. Previously date-listed as April 27 based on early reporting; corrected to April 25 per WHO/Manila Times. \*Husband of index case PEDB43, sharing Cabin 406. Onset 48 h after index. Person-to-person transmission via intimate contact in confined cabin. Died aboard MV Hondius per WHO statement (May 6). Early reporting erroneously described him as evacuated to Punta Arenas — corrected to 'died on the ship' per WHO/AFP/Manila Times.\* Crew member who provided extended care to index case in Cabin 406 without adequate PPE during early illness phase. Confirmed hantavirus by serology. Medically evacuated to Johannesburg, South Africa. Condition: serious but stable. WHO update (May 6): patient in intensive care in South Africa is reportedly improving.
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chatgat 4 days ago +17
Here is to the hero crew member who cared for the index case person. 
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Technical_Pilot7968 3 days ago +12
I believe it was the doctor on board
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jimtow28 4 days ago +612
I can hear it now. "If we would just slow the testing down, soon we'd be down to almost no cases."
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sharrrper 4 days ago +161
"If you ignore all the shooting between Iran and the US the ceasefire is holding"
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HappyTimeTurtle 4 days ago +14
"If you don't call it war in Iran, then there is no war in Iran."
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Arctic_Chilean 4 days ago +25
"Radiation measured is only 3.6 rontgen, not great, but not terrible" 
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TheNuschler 4 days ago +320
Hey, hey, I’ve seen this one! It’s a classic!
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CurrentConditionsAI 4 days ago +59
What’s a rerun?
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BaconContestXBL 4 days ago +33
He’s teasing you, no one can afford two televisions
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Expo737 4 days ago +10
If you ever have a kid like that, I'll disown you.
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skitch23 4 days ago +10
Better get used to those bars kid.
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Blackbyrn 4 days ago +52
Never forget that Trump shut down the global network of CDC facilities in his first term before COVID. They were there specifically to stay in the loop and ahead of situations like these.
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CB4R 4 days ago +66
I should invest in delivery firms again right now and mask producers and toilet paper
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Drey5000 4 days ago +34
Zoom is back on the menu boys
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DungeonsAndDradis 4 days ago +12
We're already in a recession (even if they don't officially call it that), so boutta be a lot of people out of work.
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Foucaultshadow1 4 days ago +515
Thank God we have RFK Jr. and the Trump admin to save us! /s
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WacoWednesday 4 days ago +98
How much bleach should I inject for this virus?
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Foucaultshadow1 4 days ago +40
2 gallons of sunlight
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memrph 4 days ago +18
And whatever that company Jr. bought sells.
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igetproteinfartsHELP 4 days ago +131
I am not mentally ready for this shit again
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Kurtotall 4 days ago +62
This is like a bad horror movie when everybody decides to split up.
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WilliamBarnhill 4 days ago +182
I hope the flight attendant doesn't have hantavirus. For her, but also because that would mean the woman that flew has infected 3 or 4 people (I can't remember exactly), which does not sound like the typical R-naught of 2.25 (.98 when under proper care). One of the big worries with this is that it's a mutated strain with a higher R-naught, meaning it's more contagious. COVID strains have an R-naught from 2 to 20, depending on the strain. Measles has between 12 and 18 depending on the strain. 10+ is considered highly contagious, and the Andes strain already is spread by droplets in the air. A Hantavirus with an R-naught of 10, mortality of ~40%, and no cure would make COVID look minor.
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ConsistentDay5620 4 days ago +17
Depends on when you have contact. If they are at max viral load then contact doesn’t have to be that prolonged.
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DriveSlowHomie 4 days ago +25
There's absolutely no evidence this is a mutated strain. The same Andes virus strain has had super spreaders in past outbreaks that infect more people than the R0 would suggest, due to close contact circumstances.
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turtyurt 4 days ago +196
In the US, I genuinely don’t think we could design a worse “leader” for another pandemic.
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lumiosengineering 4 days ago +73
Two pandemics under the same president. Wild
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Danger-Tits 4 days ago +10
not a coincidence btw
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Natebo83 4 days ago +19
You guys all we have to do is not test anybody.
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Lamontyy 4 days ago +17
Rats, bats, and cruise ships. The true enemies of mankind
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mbrant66 4 days ago +150
Well with the fatality rate of this one, if it becomes a pandemic, we won’t have to endure a third one. That will be it.
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Pisstoffo 4 days ago +82
30-50% fatality rate is what was on the news yesterday. It’s ok though, because the WHO spokesman said it’s unlikely to turn into a pandemic.
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arveena 4 days ago +78
Anyone remember the who press conference where they where glazing China not answering the Taiwan question and said the risk for the world was very low. Because I remember
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explicitlarynx 4 days ago +84
Don't infections with high lethality burn out really fast?
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ILoveRawChicken 4 days ago +87
Yeah I had the opportunity to take a pandemic science course with an amazing professor who was heavily involved in the COVID response here in the US. Pandemics don’t just happen every other day. The likelihood of this being the next pandemic is very low for a number of reasons, the high lethality being one of them.
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madhi19 4 days ago +40
Kill too fast to spread, the thing that made covid so scary was that the shit killed 1% or 2% but maimed a hell of a lot more than that... So you had idiots thinking they were fine rolling the dice all over the place. Not to mention asymptomatic carrier, engorged hospitals...
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ReferentiallySeethru 4 days ago +26
Yes but not always, smallpox is highly contagious and highly deadly (30%)
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_male_man 4 days ago +45
Can't wait for the videos of MAGA shoveling rat turds into their mouths to prove it's just a hoax.
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StaceyJeans 4 days ago +595
Why people who were on the ship were allowed to fly on planes with the general public is mind-boggling to me. Everyone and everything on that ship should have been quarantined.
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spooky-cookie 4 days ago +537
They got off the ship at a stop before anyone knew the virus was on board
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Skylair13 4 days ago +154
Death on 11th April, Removal of the dead and her wife on 24th April, Wife's death on 26th April, and only been confirmed to be Hantavirus on 2nd May 2026.... *5 days ago*. And the confirmation that it's the rare human-to-human Andes version was confirmed *yesterday*. 13-15 April (Tristan da Cunha), 26th April (Saint Helena), and 27th April (Ascension Island) disembarking days happened before they realized what was going on. There's an entire month before it was confirmed what type of disease that was spreading on that cruise ship.
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madhi19 4 days ago +37
At this point it's a plague ship... 1 to 8 weeks incubation shit gonna get really bad around mid May to June...
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rach15goated 4 days ago +27
8 weeks is the MAXIMUM incubation period but it’s uncommon, 2 weeks ish is the most common period from infection to symptom onset. Most people onboard that ship have been on there for 5 weeks now. The flight attendant thought to have contracted it whilst assisting the deceased Dutch woman off a plane and is now in hospital being tested. This happened 12/13 days ago which would match up with the average of 2 weeks infection to symptom period. If the virus was pandemic material wayyyyy more people on that ship would’ve displayed symptoms and died by now.
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DriveSlowHomie 4 days ago +12
There's also nothing to say the flight attendant didn't just pick up another virus in the interim, especially considering the mild symptoms. She's only in the hospital out of precaution
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Ktjoonbug 4 days ago +31
This virus has a very long incubation period.
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Lumpyyyyy 4 days ago +172
Were you alive 6 years ago? Need I remind you how f****** selfish people are?
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fancywinky 4 days ago +71
All I remember is that I’m never going on a cruise
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Area51_Spurs 4 days ago +129
Here we go! No traffic and no old people! Can’t wait!
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RoxyLA95 4 days ago +23
Cruise ships will be the end of us.
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Zeeplankton 4 days ago +106
i don't want h***** virus
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flickerdown 4 days ago +61
“Make Hanta Great Again” seems like something RFK Jr would unironically wear.
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jcpopm 4 days ago +24
Make America Hanta Again
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fleebizkit 3 days ago +11
Are we doing this again? I can't do this again.
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ninjadude4535 4 days ago +45
"Due to the ongoing war and ongoing pandemic, we will be unable to hold elections" -djt five months from now, probably.
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fav453 4 days ago +18
Most people will dismiss this "covid wasn't that bad, I had it like 4 times". Then read how Hanta kills you...
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shmed 4 days ago +21
Great to hear this as I'm boarding out if my KLM flight in Amsterdam
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Outside-Resource-113 4 days ago +19
Even if it isn't Hanta I'm just glad they're taking it alot more seriously this time with being cautious. They saw what the last pandemic did, they lived through it.
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TheWombBroomer 4 days ago +9
Man, thank god we have RFK Jr at the helm, surely he has a handle on this
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Adam__B 3 days ago +9
Well I’m sure Trump will handle a new outbreak just fine. Remember how well he did during Covid! I can’t wait to be told I need to bathe in Windex or blast my ass with ultraviolet light.
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KinderSpirit 4 days ago +74
*Let's ignore this until it spreads all over the globe...*
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1800-5-PP-DOO-DOO 4 days ago +8
They keep saying there is nothing to worry about but infected people keep showing up from human to human spread and it has up to an 8 week incubation period. 
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Thorniestbush 4 days ago +8
How lovely, we get to watch a pandemic start in real time again.
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therealhairykrishna 4 days ago +58
I thought that this 'Andes variant' was only nominally human to human transmissible? In that you basically had to be sharing a bed and in contact for many hours to transfer it? If a flight assistant has got it from brief contact, it seems like we might be fucked.
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slow_the_rain 4 days ago +39
There was an outbreak in Argentina in 2018-2019 that had several “superspreader” events. It seems to be very transmissible for a ~24hr period early on, when those with symptoms have a fever.
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FairlyInconsistentRa 4 days ago +47
Aw shit here we go again.
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ChampagneAbuelo 4 days ago +15
So let me get this straight They just sent a cruise ship of people exposed to a disease that has around a 40% mortality rate with no vaccine available… home on normal ass flights Just like that?
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ntsp00 4 days ago +14
It's a shitty article with no specifics. The Dutch woman attempted to fly home with her dead husband's remains (suspected patient zero) on 4/25, but the flight crew deboarded her for being too sick. The woman then died 4/26. It was that flight where the flight attendant became exposed to hantavirus from the Dutch woman. After a second cruise passenger died on 5/2 and a third was transported to the hospital in critical condition, WHO was notified and no one was allowed to deboard from then on. The patient in the hospital tested positive for hantavirus so they went back and tested the deceased Dutch woman's body (it was positive). The exposure happened before all of that.
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HungryCurrency8481 4 days ago +8
No one knows more about pandemics than Trump. 2 weeks, folks. 
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AbeRego 4 days ago +8
Dontcha dontcha dontcha wanna hanta hanta?
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SalivateTheStarfish 4 days ago +6
COIVID 2: Electric Boogaloo
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cdev12399 3 days ago +7
Welp, time to go buy 1000 rolls of toilet paper for no reason.
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