"This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently": WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak

What doctors know about how the Andes hantavirus spreads https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/health/andes-strain-hantavirus-explained > 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 ... > During the 90 minutes he was at the party, he infected five others, including two people sitting roughly a foot from him at the same table and **two people who were sitting roughly 4 feet away from him at neighboring tables. The fifth person to catch the virus crossed paths with the patient only briefly on their way to the restroom** ... > "... It’s an unusual person-to-person event, and it might have happened because, perhaps, of a closed environment on a ship,” said Dr. Lucille Blumberg, an infectious disease specialist who is the former deputy director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa, of the cruise ship outbreak.

Dr. Van Kerkhove also stressed, "This is not coronavirus. This is a very different virus that has existed for quite some time. This is not the beginning of a Covid pandemic; this is an outbreak we are observing on the ship, occurring in a confined area." "This is not the same situation we faced six years ago. It does not spread in the same way," Saved you guys some stress.

so, sex with rats no more

I see these comments and can instantly tell practically none of them read the article.

The important question is which livestock medicine should I stockpile now to sell later to idiots.

"Requires very close, very intimate contact" So Listnookors not at risk then.

I’m so glad we have a raccoon p**** examiner leading the US health department. I’m sure he’s got the perfect plan in place to handle this.

As a Korean who’s been vaccinated against Hantavirus, I hope this situation encourages the development of a more effective and advanced vaccine. Right now, commercially available Hantavirus vaccines exist mainly in Korea, while in the U.S. and China the vaccines have mostly been limited to government-led research and development. However, the Korean vaccine has often been criticized for its limited effectiveness. I’d really like to see major global pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer or Moderna develop a highly effective next-generation Hantavirus vaccine.

“Differently” = astronomically more slowly and with more difficulty Fixed the clickbait headline for you.

But what does Joe Rogan recommend we do? Did the WHO consult with Joe Rogan?

This is not like Covid….nor influenza….but IT IS LIKE EBOLA

"If we follow public health measures, with contact tracing and isolation, we can break this chain of transmission.” Oh, so we’re proper fucked, is what you’re telling me?

The article and statement are kinda minimizing it though. Its kinda the stereotypical government don’t panicky message. Transmission doesnt seem to require “intimate contact”. The study of first large spreading event of this virus shows that a single person gave it to 5 people at a birthday party of 100 people. A bunch of them were just sitting near the person at different tables for 90 min. Maybe they shook hands or hugged or he coughed a bunch near them or on their food or something but they werent making out or having sex. It requires close contact with a symptomatic person. Not intimate contact. The widow of one of these people then gave it to 10 people who attended the funeral of her husband. 2 people were infected at the hospital who treated these people, thats actually really small though considering the number of contacts that would have happened. Overall one person got it probably from a rat ended up in 34 people getting it and 11 dying. So it spreads kinda easily from a symptomatic person. Also if it’s like standard hantavirus transmission from rats then it probably lives on surfaces for a while. When you get it from a rat you dont usually get it direct from the rat you get it from things the rat chewed pissed or shat on. Overall i dont think minimizing it is a good idea. It should be easily preventable with simple precautions and quarantine but a single symptomatic person who’s a d*** like covid deniers could easily cause the death of many people. Ie it’s not gonna be a pandemic but an exposed individual could get their family killed. It may not transmit as easily as covid but the mortality rate is hugely higher 40%. [https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040#ap1&uccLastUpdatedDate=2026-01-20%2016%3A06%3A29.751%20%2B0000&rememberMe=true](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040#ap1&uccLastUpdatedDate=2026-01-20%2016%3A06%3A29.751%20%2B0000&rememberMe=true)

It says close, intimate contact is required for transmission. I understand patient zero and his wife, so how did others become infected?

“Only people in close contact.” By some weird coincidence, that’s exactly what humans tend to do.

Not trying to be crude but they keep saying close intimate contact is how it spreads…. Were they having old person orgies on the cruise?

F*** this vague headline. Hysterical people will happily read it as “this isn’t those things, it’s \*worse\*. “. The media as it’s currently constructed just makes things worse.

RFK’s in charge. No need to worry. The brain worm has it all under control.

OF COURSE trump is in office for both Covid and this, we are actually in the worst timeline

Plague Inc player that stored some evolve points: \- Extreme Zoonosis \- Extreme Hematophagy \- Extreme Bioaerosol

I don't know if I can do the rest of this decade guys... I am soooo tired, can I like coma up and if we live, someone can see if they can wake me up?

It’s also entirely too deadly. Anyone that’s worried read up on SARS CoV from 2002. There’s not way a hantavirus can cause a pandemic like COVID-19 without a DRAMATIC series of mutations. Cruise ships are one step removed from submarines, they are the perfect breeding ground for any virus/pathogen to sweep through a group of people due to tight quarters, repeated exposures, and often subpar sanitation practices. -source I’m a virologist who has worked with bunyaviruses (the viral family hantas belong to)

Reminder: companies that control your world view, like Listnook, very much want to feed your addiction with fear to sell more advertising.

Just a reminder, RFK Jr is a strong supporter of "herd immunity."

""It is similar to the Agrentia outbreak, and we don't anticipate a large epidemic. With public health measures, we can break the chain of transmission, and this will be a limited outbreak," mentioned Dr. Mahamud." I think the key words are "public health measures", which America under Trump has fumbled repeatedly, in many different ways. So this could be an easy "win" which anti-maskers and their ilk circumvent or even righteously sabotage because freedumb.

Great. I work in a hospital. If it becomes an outbreak, I'm quitting and hiding. This red state won't listen to a damn thing the CDC says

It was on a cruise ship, this is gonna just RIP through the swinger community lol

If we get another lockdown im hitting top500 tank in overwatch watch it happen

I think this time around I’m going to focus on sourdough, yoga and a Sopranos rewatch.

Ok well now what am I supposed to do with my 55 egg cartons, 55 toilet paper boxes, 55 hand sanitizer pallets?

Damn. Didn't Gene Hackman's wife die of this?

Are the republicans saying is fake yet? Are they already recommending bleach and horse dewormer?

Good to hear them asking for people to stay calm, given that it’s very hard to catch