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News & Current Events May 10, 2026 at 4:39 AM

Passengers on Hantavirus Cruise Ship Will Disembark in Tenerife and Return to Home Countries

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Safety_Drance 3 days ago +1562
Smash cut to the opening of 28 Days Later.
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Alternative-Ending_ 3 days ago +161
Two passengers from the cruise ship left the day the wife of the first guy who died got off the cruise. They were on the ship for 3 weeks. They are in Houston and have been roaming around without quarantine of any kind. Their temperatures are being monitored.
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stupidio_the_return 3 days ago +44
Just drink brawndo it's what plants crave.
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PinkCigarettes 3 days ago +8
I’m NotSure
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JJBeans_1 3 days ago +88
Complimentary hantavirus outbreak compliments of DOGE CDC.
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Rinaldootje 2 days ago +7
The Dutch passengers are in daily contact with the local health health organization. But are "required" to self isolate for 6 weeks at home. At the same time, it was announced they are free to go outside if they wish to do so. So yeh up until that point the "requirement" to self isolate.
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SuperSuppleDude 2 days ago +11
Similar thing happened during Trump’s first term with Covid being brought back on cruise ships and airplanes.
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cantstandya100 2 days ago +1
The movie backed by Soros?
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CreekPrincessBitch 1 day ago +2
Same thing with a passenger who flew back home to Arizona that day. But they won’t say where in Arizona that person lives. Which is double fucked, because if you’re gonna leave them to roam free and “self-monitor”, at least tell us which city so we can protect ourselves.
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Old_Boah 3 days ago +3
Yeah that’s normal. Hanta is not going to spread widely. 
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Alternative-Ending_ 2 days ago +10
I'm confused what your point is by saying it's not going to spread widely. Are you saying you don't care about the ppl in Houston that may be exposed? Just because it's not a mass casualty event doesn't mean it should be normal to let ppl with a deadly contagious disease walk around freely
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Old_Boah 2 days ago +20
\>They are in Houston and have been roaming around without quarantine of any kind. Their temperatures are being monitored. I'm saying the method of observation is normal. They don't need to live in a bubble. They're not being irresponsible. Hanta does not spread widely. It's not like COVID. As long as they are responsible and check in with health authorities and follow their advice there's no broad risk. Get your COVID shot and flu shot each year and vote for robust social wellfare and healthcare programs. Those things are far, far bigger killers right now than Hantavirus. \>Just because it's not a mass casualty event doesn't mean it should be normal to let ppl with a deadly contagious disease walk around freely COVID will kill more people this summer than Hantavirus.
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BritishAnimator 3 days ago +68
All those immune carrier's sticking their heads through the smashed door shouting HEY HONEY, IM HOME! Oh wait, noooooo, that's a Mandela effect!
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Valianne11111 3 days ago +6
More like that movie with Gwyneth Paltrow, Contagion.
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kookiemaster 3 days ago +576
Meanwhile Madagascar and Greenland are ripping their hairs out "wtf people ... close everything, close it now!"
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sultan-of-ping 3 days ago +120
Hello fellow gamer of culture
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CronosWorks 2 days ago +6
Madagascar always wins.
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Mike_Huncho 2 days ago +6
Not if thats where you start
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kookiemaster 2 days ago +6
Then Greenland gets you.
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pinklavalamp 2 days ago +4
I just keep all symptoms hidden until 1 case on each island and then boom! Overnight takeover with the superspreader.
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JConRed 3 days ago +204
How about no? You keep them there in isolation until they are cleared And the whole crew too.
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CaptainObvious110 3 days ago +37
Exactly, that's what would make sense. Keep it contained and not allowed to spread all over the world.
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Spiritual-Matters 2 days ago +13
But someone has to pay for that. It would be a lot cheaper for all governments to fund it, but instead they’ll let it spread and cut billions off the economy
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CaptainObvious110 2 days ago +2
Multiple countries that the people come from could pay for it.
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Fast_Grass_5178 2 days ago +2
This is what makes the most sense to me too, genuinely seems like the most plausible scenario.
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Dblcut3 3 days ago +816
I’m tired of everyone in the comments still failing to understand Hantavirus simply doesn’t present the same threat of mass-transmission that COVID did
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Operation_Neither 3 days ago +620
Why stick to facts when mass panic is an option?
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rocketbunny77 3 days ago +158
We want an escape from our lives. That's why
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Qyuus1 3 days ago +36
So when can I escape? I need this escape real bad
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Philip_Marlowe 3 days ago +38
Do you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain?
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ZenoxDemin 3 days ago +20
I'm not much into health food I am into champagne
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Feckless_Moron 3 days ago +6
I'm rather fond of making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape.
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GuruPandaPrisonBear 3 days ago +5
Come with me and escape!
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internetdeadaf 2 days ago +2
Ooo… hate to say it but the actual message to that song is you already have what you feel is missing and are looking for, and the secret is learning to be more open and appreciate what you have 😬
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lookingup9 3 days ago +14
Idk about other people… but I don’t want an escape from my life into contemplation about a hantavirus pandemic, which is basically my worst nightmare scenario
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rach15goated 3 days ago +17
I’m the same, but I think for certain types of people the idea of another pandemic is a stimulating and novel escape from their miserable and boring lives I personally know people who are so bored and empty that they spend their free time researching terrifying conspiracy theories and secretly long for WW3 Many people would rather be scared than bored
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BMonad 2 days ago +5
Same; world wars, economic collapse, deadly pandemics, alien invasion, etc. Keep in mind this is also Listnook and the vocal minority here could easily be medicated or undiagnosed for severe depression, sociopathy, schizophrenia, etc.
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VersaceSamurai 3 days ago +6
Yeah I think most of it is people just wanting a return to the freedom we had during Covid lmao probably the last time many of us enjoyed free time or took a “vacation”
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Rich_Housing971 3 days ago +3
so go watch a movie or something instead of spreading medical misinformation and FUD.
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Firestorm0x0 3 days ago +1
Let's just do a lockdown flashmob
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myetel 3 days ago +2
That’s one way to bring down gas prices.
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Commonpigfern 3 days ago +430
And yet it has spread in the environment of the cruise ship and it does represent a 40% fatality rate. Yes it's not COVID. No a ship full of potential carriers should not be sent back home until they have shown they're not a threat.
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snark-owl 3 days ago +401
Ya, it doesn't have to be global pandemic level  for us to want these people to quarantine *before* they get on a plane. Even just one other death that could be avoided through quarantine is a good enough reason. 
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Maybe_In_Time 3 days ago +86
It just reminds you that if organizations and governments can’t work together to quarantine a cruise ship - pretty much the ideal environment to have to deal with - over a deadly virus outbreak…they seem to the general public like they’re ineffective and unprepared for the Big One 2.0
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chokokhan 3 days ago +62
I don’t understand. They’re already in the perfect quarantined environment. Just keep them on the damn boat until they’re cleared.
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DoctorJJWho 3 days ago +25
Seriously, it’s where the word “quarantine” even comes from!!
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BadahBingBadahBoom 3 days ago +14
40 days and 40 nights. Even before people knew anything about germ theory, transmission or infection routes, this worked very effectively. I mean sometimes most of the people on the boat also died but everyone on land was fine lol.
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RozeTank 2 days ago +4
Except now we know about germ theory, and a lot more, so we don't have to be so draconian. Also, we can actually treat the sick people safely.
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RozeTank 2 days ago +1
Probably because keeping them all cooped up on a boat would be difficult. What happens when a passenger needs actual treatment? Then you have to try and get medical staff into a contaminated environment to get them out. It might sound crazy, but getting the people off the ship and into actual quarantine areas with actual medical equipment is probably safer. This isn't yet COVID, we have the luxury of trying to save everybody. Also, its only a perfect quarantined environment if you automatically decide everyone onboard is infected. That is by no means guaranteed.
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simanthropy 2 days ago +1
Doesn’t really work unless every single person on the ship quarantines from each other… which is extremely difficult/impossible on the ship.
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orobsky 2 days ago +3
I think this is why you couldn't just shut the world down for 14 days or whatever during covid. Family members would be infecting each other and would probably require like a 60 day quarantine or so
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canonanon 2 days ago +1
Yeah, basically a bunch of people who don't have it will end up with it by the end.
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BoolImAGhost 2 days ago +4
Just an FYI, the “pan” in pandemic implies global. “Global pandemic” is redundant
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BadahBingBadahBoom 3 days ago +10
> *before* they get on a plane. Should point out they're being returned on specialised small infection-control aircraft that are chartered. Not commercial flights.
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tears_of_fat_thor 2 days ago +6
But infected people already were on a couple of commercial flights. Airline 4Z 132. And the other ship passengers who already disembarked.
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BadahBingBadahBoom 2 days ago +3
>But infected **people** already were on a couple of commercial flights.  Source for this? The only person confirmed to be infected who took a commercial flight was the Dutch wife of the husband who first died. That was one person not people. And at that was 7 days before anyone knew this was a suspected hantavirus outbreak. Two suspected cases from the her second KLM flight she never ended up taking have since both tested negative. Nobody on her first flight you cited I believe has tested positive or is a suspected case as of now. There was one more case today of a French citizen who started to develop symptoms whilst on a evacuation flight from the Canary Islands to France but as I said that was [**not a commercial flight**](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r2p70jdy7o). Every other person who was potentially exposed on the ship and went on to take a commercial flight disembarked back on 24 April before anyone even knew they were at risk of spreading hantavirus (and before even the wife started showing symptoms). It would be bit harsh tbh to criticise them retrospectively for getting on a commercial flight at that point with none even showing symptoms.
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a500poundchicken 2 days ago +4
I don’t know about other places but four are returning to my home province in Canada and are being quarantined the whole time. In a plane with no other passengers to my understanding
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El_Tormentito 3 days ago +42
People said the same shit ad nauseum about COVID for weeks. It's not airborne! Bullshit.
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bm_200659 3 days ago +15
WHO & CDC did a huge disservice to science by trying to "calm" people down by downplaying COVID communicability. Then again in their "investigation" into how it started.
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ODaysForDays 3 days ago +7
Who said covid wasn't airborne? It was known to be SARS-like from day 1...SARS being very contagious. It was the effects I remember being drastically downplayed.
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El_Tormentito 3 days ago +21
WHO said it wasn't airborne. That statement caused an enormous amount of public damage. That you can't remember it isn't my fault.
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user_of_the_week 3 days ago +11
I just wanted to back you up here, they did say that. Maybe it‘s easier to remember if you think about the cloth masks we made because we thought it would avoid spreading via droplets.
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ODaysForDays 3 days ago +5
> That you can't remember it isn't my fault. Not remembering it is why I asked
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cubsgirl101 3 days ago +2
That’s not even true it was only the CDC who downplayed Covid. WHO was already recommending quarantines etc and within three weeks of it hitting east Asia, government health bodies were issuing urgent warnings.
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BrucetheFerrisWheel 3 days ago +11
It was the WHO that advised countries to not close borders
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El_Tormentito 3 days ago +11
WHO said it wasn't airborne.
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swallowyourtongue 3 days ago +15
For real, people have seemingly forgotten that two things can be true at once. Also, I remember a lot of pre covid discourse about it being overblown, that it would get handled, people were panicking for nothing. If I were in a leadership position, I wouldn't make the same mistake twice.
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Honest-Grab5209 2 days ago +1
Yep....sure was...bs radar is activated......lotta lies told then....and sounds similar...
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fansonly 3 days ago +5
And nobody is mentioning that there is a significant background seroprevenlance in Chile for example leading people to believe that there are many non lethal infections that go unreported which is exaggerating the fatality rate.
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poop-machines 3 days ago -10
Bro on cruise ships, during norovirus outbreaks, sometimes 80% of people on the ship get it. Measles can spread to people 100m away. Even Covid spread to people 20m away in a superspreader event. This was on a cruise ship, the worst place to be during a virus outbreak, and just 8 people got it out of almost 200. Its not very scary at the moment. Unless the doubling rate picks up, this will lose steam.
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Sciuridaeno3 3 days ago +44
Yeah, where are you getting this 900 people number? A quick search shows 147 people on board, which includes staff and crew.
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DoctorJJWho 3 days ago +21
They edited to “almost 200” so they’re still being disingenuous lol.
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Sciuridaeno3 3 days ago +14
Lol. It really hurt their "less than 1%" argument.
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LadyCheeba 3 days ago +34
there weren’t 900 people on this ship, there were 150
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shakeyshake1 3 days ago +27
The incubation period can last up to six weeks. It’s way too early to judge who could end up with it. It’s not like a typical virus where if you’re exposed, it would be obvious in a couple of days.
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lardman150 3 days ago +33
Just 8 people....so far. That's the problem people have with this decision.
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Trail_Goat 3 days ago +8
All of this is wrong.
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Lamuks 3 days ago +129
And? Ebola also isn't exactly as mass transmitable as Covid but we absolutely cause panic because it's so deadly. I remember working at a hospital during one of the Ebola outbreaks and even if there no cases in Europe other than in Spain I was terrified
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zetstar 3 days ago +39
Ebola is much more deadly and much more easily spread by bodily fluids.
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Lamuks 3 days ago +81
No, Ebola is far more _understood_ on how it transmits. With hanta we don't even really know the exact timing and when and how. That said Ebola is terrifying, I was working with tools back then and the thought of accidently touching my face or something with dirty gloves was existential.
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MissMormie 3 days ago -5
I'm sorry you were terrified. But your emotions aren't a good way of determining actual risk. Not for ebola and not now.  The people returning to their himes are quarantined, just in their homes instead of on a ship. This is also not a new virus, there's about 300 deaths from it every year and it hasn't caused major outbreaks any of if those times. Why would it now in a much more controlled environment. 
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No_Conversation_9325 3 days ago +8
The Spanish are being quarantined in a military hospital special unit, not in their homes.
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Rrraou 3 days ago +5
Makes sense. Don't trust people to do the right thing. They will disappoint you every time.
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Garbage_Out_Of_Here 3 days ago +1
How are they getting home?
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Eldar_Atog 2 days ago +2
Well.. RFK is sending a fleet of transport planes filled with immunocompromised individuals and then loading 1 cruise passenger on each plane. Then speciity air masks will be used to insure each passenger breathes airborne spittal from each other passenger. Afterward arriving in Atlanta, each passenger will be flown home on flights with at least 10 connecting flights to insure maximum coverage. The worm has been quoted as saying the plan is fool proof.
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No_Conversation_9325 2 days ago +1
Evacuation flights. Only US and Australia left by now. The Netherlands will also pick up abandoned citizens of other countries.
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Alarming_Ask_244 3 days ago +40
What threat would it pose if we left them on the ship for a few more weeks?
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No_Conversation_9325 3 days ago +26
Threat to their lives should they develop symptoms. Plus higher chance of transmission because the ship doesn’t have quarantine level isolation between passengers
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Dblcut3 3 days ago +11
Well first off, the healthy people on the ship would have a much higher likelihood of dying when we easily could have prevented that
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Eitarris 3 days ago +74
Yet it also has a very long window before symptoms show which helps it spread. Stop pretending you know more than everyone else and are unique
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Kairit_ 3 days ago +37
Except from what we know, it's not really contagious unless the person is already showing symptoms. So it is unlikely to spread like COVID did.
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JConRed 3 days ago +66
I've read that it's contagious from 2 days prior to symptoms showing and has a initial peak infectivity on the first day of symptoms. And what do you think these people are gonna do in their home countries? Isolate properly? Nah, they'll live their lives, and when they get sick in 2-8 weeks time we'll have the salad.
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20150614 3 days ago +11
>I've read that it's contagious from 2 days prior to symptoms showing and has a initial peak infectivity on the first day of symptoms. Do you remember where you read it?
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PrestigiousGoat78 3 days ago +9
Mein amerikanischer Mann liebt es, wenn wir unsere Sprichwörter auf Englisch übersetzen 😂
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BadahBingBadahBoom 3 days ago +2
As a Brit I made dinner for a German exchange student once. "Magst du Bolognese? Ist es gut?" "Ja, kann man mal essen." 🤨
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I_am_pyxidis 3 days ago +5
This is no time to order a salad! (JK I have no idea what that saying means but it's funny to me.)
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OrangeSpaceMan5 3 days ago +41
I mean we can't really discard the possibility of a mutation in the virus , due to the long incubation time we wouldn't know until several weeks later Precaution doesn't cost anything
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Dernom 3 days ago +7
Well... if we're being realistic it does have a cost. Every person in quarantine is not working, and have needs that must be fulfilled (food, water, etc.). But the cost of precaution is really low compared to even mild consequences, so we really should be doing it.
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Ok_Landscape_3958 3 days ago +10
Who guarantees that these people quarantine when they show symptoms? Or will they just ho down the pub because you can't trust experts?
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DeliverySoggy2700 3 days ago +16
But Covid is just a mutation from coronavirus which was pretty much the same ordeal. If it hits enough bodies stealthily enough it could mutate into properties that make it more virulent
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cubsgirl101 3 days ago +1
People with hantavirus generally end up too sick to be able to go about their day. So during that peak transmission period they’re probably too sick to get out of bed instead of up and around coughing on other people.
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Scriefers 3 days ago +4
Yet it also has a very small contagion window in which it is only able to spread for a short time AFTER symptoms begin. Stop pretending you know more than everyone else and stop fear mongering.
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smackson 3 days ago +4
[This strain has been known to reach an R number of 2.1](https://english.elpais.com/health/2026-05-07/andes-hantavirus-deadly-2018-outbreak-shows-it-is-not-only-transmitted-through-close-contact.html) Concern is warranted, stop calling it fear mongering.
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Scriefers 2 days ago +1
That number is from incredibly rare ‘super spreader’ individuals who cause those infectious rates because of their viral load and living conditions. Whereas COVID on average, from average individuals with quarantine measures in place early, had an infectious rate of 3+. Get better reading comprehension, and critical thinking. There is minimal concern. Quit fear mongering.
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bageltheperson 3 days ago +10
These people want another pandemic so bad. It’s ridiculous.
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orobsky 2 days ago +5
They all just wanna go back to WFH
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Galappie 2 days ago +2
It’s like we went from “trust the experts/science. They know this better than anyone” with covid to “f*** the experts and science I know this better than anyone!” with hantavirus. We should try trusting them about both viruses.
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Hobbies-tracks 3 days ago +8
Remember early 2020 when everyone was trying to at covid wasn't any worse than the common cold? Then millions of people proceeded to die? Yeah, I'll stick to being cautious, thanks. Shouldn't have let anyone off that boat until everyone onboard were healthy, or they all croaked. And FYI, covid had a mortality rate of 2-5%. Hanta, 40~%.
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CaptainObvious110 3 days ago +3
Absolutely
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Honest-Grab5209 2 days ago +1
Ditto..
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orobsky 2 days ago +3
China was welding apartment complex doors shut and went into full lock down mode. I think we should just pay attention to what they are doing
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Hobbies-tracks 2 days ago +2
If this came out of china, sure. Considering this outbreak is believed to have come out of Argentina, we should be watching them. And to anyone paying attention to them lately, we should be worried.
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kawaii22 3 days ago +8
Did you know what was covid's potential when it first started?
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cubsgirl101 3 days ago +4
That’s the difference though. Scientists have a firm idea of the potential for hantavirus. It’s not particularly contagious even in the Andres strain, which humans can catch from other humans. Basically someone sick with the disease has to be feverish and coughing in the same room as you for 20 minutes straight for you to be at real risk of infection and in the time period where a potentially infected person is asymptomatic, there’s a near zero chance of transmitting the virus.
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TrogdorBurns 3 days ago +4
I think the 40% fatality rate outweighs the fact that one has to have a visibly sick person spit in their mouth to get it.
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CaptainObvious110 3 days ago +5
Ok so how did the people get sick in the first place
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3rd-party-intervener 2 days ago +2
We don’t fully understand hantavirus and as such precautions should be taken.  
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Minor-Gold-npc 1 day ago +1
The reality is we are getting news of more and more individuals involved or had contact with another with the virus. The number of individuals isolating grows daily. in addition there’s the not so small up to eight weeks. It is not a trifling matter. The spread is happening.
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BathFullOfDucks 3 days ago
shouting into the wind at the moment I'm afraid. People just love to make other people scared.
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CanWeNapPlease 3 days ago +1
Do you live in the US or Canada? In European countries, everyone is a lot more compact together. Houses, walking paths, train stations, restaurants... Everyone is a lot closer together all the time. I do agree that it doesn't have the same threat. But some places harbour faster disease infections and transmission than others for a reason.
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Dblcut3 3 days ago +2
Even then, scientists understand Hantavirus pretty well already unlike COVID. It’s not a new disease by any means, and even in close quarters, it’s very difficult to spread person to person
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silviam 3 days ago +2
Can we just rename it the Epstein virus?
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buttchugreferee 3 days ago +8
There's already the Epstein-Barr virus
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Old_Boah 3 days ago +1
People get their entertainment by making a big deal out of this stuff these days. 
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____trash 3 days ago +234
Keep them motherfuckers on the boat.
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Lunaris_Von_Sunrip 3 days ago +157
"we're people too" the other 8 billion people on the planet are also people who don't want hantavirus
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Hvarfa-Bragi 3 days ago +90
You chose your floating coffin, don't make this our problem
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Sask_mask_user 2 days ago +7
Canada few its citizens home on a private plane. Health officials will meet them at the airport for assessment. Then they will be taken to a pre-determined location to isolate for 21 days. 
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Cocoricou 2 days ago +3
Even if it's true, that doesn't mean all countries will do as good.
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NorthbyFjord 3 days ago +28
Quick question; **How about no?**
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Lotsavodka 2 days ago +3
So it begins.
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Denim_in_dago 2 days ago +4
Um, speaking from experience here: Keep them in the damn boat until they are all better. That’s the chance you take going on them lame ass things
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calstanfordboye 2 days ago +3
Dumbest f****** idea ever. But yea that's the world we live in anyways.
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sharpsicle 3 days ago +25
These comments show just how much Listnook has turned into a hive mind mentality, and for the worse. Forget critical thinking and applying facts to the conversation, let’s just parrot what sounds good instead!
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BigPlunk 2 days ago +14
If this wasn't a paywalled article, I'd be in there grabbing the paragraph that gets to the core of the issue. Every article I've read so far has some mention of scientists saying they don't perceive a risk of a pandemic, based on the evidence and understanding of this strain. I honestly think there's a swath of bots on Listnook whose main goal is to doom-hype, make people feel powerless, and perpetuate the negative emotions that keep people engaged on social media. The majority of Listnookors/bot accounts seem to want to bathe in complaints, grievances, doomerism, cynicism, and complacency. Very few seem willing to present, propose, or participate in meaningful solutions. It's making a good case for unplugging from all forms of social media because I know there's platforms far worse than Listnook in terms of toxicity.
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Galappie 2 days ago +2
While some could be bots there’s probably a fair amount of real people saying this stuff too. The sad reality is a lot of people get their news almost exclusively via reading just headlines and social media posts which are almost always going to be exaggerated and sensationalized all to hell. That leads to a lot of people genuinely believing that we’re just 2 months away from a deadly global pandemic again.
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BigPlunk 2 days ago +1
I agree with you. A little due diligence and critical thinking goes a long way.
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vitaminz1990 2 days ago +1
Listnook is a shit-hole and has been for years. There’s threads on major subs that align to the Listnook “consensus” that will have 5k+ upvotes and like 15 comments. You can’t tell me that’s not bots just upvoting stories in mass to push agendas. 10+ years ago on Listnook, a post with 5k upvotes was at the top of the site and had hundreds of comments. This site likes to think of itself as better than other social media platforms (like twitter/X) but it’s not. 
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Bladder-Splatter 2 days ago +5
Eh, the most consistently said and upvoted comments on Listnook I see tend to be the ones complaining about Listnook and its hive-mind mentality. It is a very strange circular import.
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sharpsicle 2 days ago +2
Might I counter this by pointing to the top comments in this very post?
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clearline27 3 days ago +23
Few deaths and cases across multiple continents already. Hope the disembarkation protocol is airtight, one slip and this gets a lot messier.
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hungariannastyboy 3 days ago +55
No cases of people not on the ship previously getting sick.
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PrestigiousGoat78 3 days ago +62
How is this upvoted?! It's inaccurate
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Scriefers 3 days ago -59
No, it won’t. This is being blown way out of proportion, hyped up for clicks and views. This isn’t some novel disease. This is a nothing burger. Just chill.
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thenotanurse 3 days ago +82
Yeah, a disease with up to 8 week incubation, no vaccines and no actual treatment protocol and a 40% mortality rate? Lmao yeah, super overblown.
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Milkmartyr 3 days ago +40
Short contagion window though. Contact tracing is much easier
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kaityl3 3 days ago +8
One would hope, but there was that case (not from the current outbreak but the same "Andes" virus/strain) where someone got it just by being at a table in a restaurant the sick person walked by. I keep seeing "only contagious through prolonged close contact" but there are several instances of it spreading between humans without that
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rocketbunny77 3 days ago +1
What is the contagion window?
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DeliverySoggy2700 3 days ago +23
24 hours they believe, but they don’t really know bc it’s composition is pretty unique and not widely studied
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20150614 3 days ago +13
According to one of the doctors who worked on the 2018 outbreak, it seems to be a day: >Palacios said the window for transmission of the Andes virus appears to be short, about a day. People are at their peak of infectiousness on the day they develop a fever. [https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/06/health/andes-strain-hantavirus-explained](https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/06/health/andes-strain-hantavirus-explained) Covid-19 was contagious for a couple of days even before symptoms and up to 10 days afterwards, so that's an advantage we have now.
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BasicMatter7339 2 days ago +1
Yeah and the other difference between Hanta and covid is that covid is airborne, it primarily spreads through small aerosols, breathed or coughed out, that hover and linger in the air for minutes at a time, up to an hour. Hanta, as far as we know, is not. It only spreads in "very specific, close contact situations" so it's likely either droplet (big droplets of saliva that fall down within a feet) or skin-to-skin (kissing, sex, exchanging of bodily fluids) transmission.
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Milkmartyr 3 days ago +9
Suspected to be about a day around first symptoms
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Scriefers 3 days ago -15
No treatment protocol? Tell me more about how you have no idea about treating viral infections. And its transmissions among humans is incredibly rare and only possible in ideal conditions. Something like, prolonged, repeated exposure in contained, dense environments where isolation isn’t viable. But by all means, please continue to worry and panic and make wild comparisons to epi- and pandemics of recent past.
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Yachtttstew 3 days ago +32
Somewhere prolonged, repeated and contained…like an airplane?
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BrilliantPatient6160 3 days ago +26
Or an office
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Media_Browser 3 days ago +6
Or a train .
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Scriefers 3 days ago +1
Perchance, but transmission is very unlikely, as its capability to do so human to human is quite low. Once the ‘exposed’ individuals are at end destination, they isolate/test, then end of story.
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Yachtttstew 3 days ago +13
While you may think it’s being blown out of proportion, can we appreciate that we’ve quite recently gone through a global pandemic and the governmental agencies that handle that type of thing have been greatly altered since then. That fact alone causes a huge amount of anxiety and so while you think it’s being overhyped people have first hand, anecdotal evidence of how bad things could get if this virus were to get out of control. The general unease that people are feeling is not overblown.
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Scriefers 3 days ago +9
I understand exactly how bad things were first hand. I was in my 3rd year of residency in intensive care rotation when Covid hit. This is not that. Relax.
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Tiddlychinks 3 days ago -2
There are different kinds of viruses. The unease is overblown. You are reliving trauma. Your anxiety is not the world’s problem, sorry.
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Inanimatecarbonrod96 3 days ago +1
Do you understand risk? The chance is low but the consequence is massive
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Nosiege 3 days ago +3
Why not just quarantine them for 8 weeks, frankly.
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Scriefers 3 days ago +4
That’s what I said. Isolate and test.
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Media_Browser 3 days ago +5
45 days …later - has less zombie apocalypse vibe .
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Slave35 3 days ago +18
It's ok guys, some guy on Listnook said everything's cool.
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Scriefers 3 days ago +12
Remind me! 1 month
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Operation_Neither 3 days ago +9
So about 28 days
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ProbablyBanksy 3 days ago +2
If you're right, and it turns into a pandemic, there's lots of money to be made on polymarket!
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DeliverySoggy2700 3 days ago +2
Actually unironically not a bad bet. 97% right now. $100bet gets you almost $10,000USD if it goes pandemic. Better than playing the l****** or gambling in a c*****. I’m in. $100 for a c**** thrill
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ProbablyBanksy 3 days ago +2
Except, it’s not a good deal. Even for a lark. Because it won’t become a pandemic. If you want shitty odds with huge payouts, there’s better options.
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Scriefers 3 days ago +4
It’s ok guys, panic and sow discourse, some guy on Listnook doesn’t understand virology and epidemiology.
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Garbage_Out_Of_Here 3 days ago +3
Man I remember February of 2020 like it was 6 years ago.
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EL-YEO 2 days ago +2
Maybe quarantine them for a few weeks to find out if any of them show symptoms or get better if they're sick first? Just an idea
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Guilty_Cow5673 3 days ago +1
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justaddwhiskey 3 days ago +1
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tmotytmoty 2 days ago +1
Oh well that’s a stupid idiotic decision
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Kappaman1902 2 days ago +1
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Bushboy2000 2 days ago +1
World War Z starting before World War III, whocouldaknown
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Ok-Spirit-4074 1 day ago +1
I would like to think theres a timeline where the WHO said "were going to airlift you in supplies. Please self isolate on the boat for 2 months for the good of the human race."  And then they did and they just ate cheetos and taco bell and watched cable tv and played skyrim on the Nintendo Switch and went sunbathing on the deck and enjoyed another 2 month vacation. But it is not this timeline...
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OleDoxieDad 2 days ago +1
Z ! M
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