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    About 40 passengers previously left ship hit by Hantavirus outbreak at island of St. Helena


    About 40 passengers previously left ship hit by Hantavirus outbreak at island of St. Helena

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    1. GrowthWithLogic on

      Cruise ships really are floating cities one outbreak and suddenly half the world is contact tracing 😬

    2. Resident_Resident154 on

      Every new update makes the situation sound less contained than before.

    3. Late_Pirate_5112 on

      How much do we (as in humanity) know about this virus? I keep seeing contradicting reports about how contageous it is and how long the incubation time is etc.

      Some of this could just be media hype fishing for clicks, but at the same time it seems to be more infectious than scientists are claiming?

    4. swedishplayer97 on

      Christ clickbait headline made it sound like there’s been 40 new cases on St. Helena. We already know 40 passengers disembarked; we don’t yet know if any are infected.

    5. roller_coaster325 on

      I don’t think this virus has the potential to become a pandemic. Any virologists that have been interviewed have said as much.

      However, that doesn’t make an interesting news story.

    6. Front_Promise_5991 on

      Are they eating rats in Argentina or what?

      Bats, rats. What’s next?

    7. IH8Lyfeee on

      Yet another reason why cruise ships are the dumbest thing ever invented.

    10. dvb70 on

      The main thing that’s stuck out about this cruise is how weird it is. It seems to have spent almost all it’s time at sea crossing the Atlantic and it’s a pretty small cruise boat to be cooped up on for long periods. Also being small and coming up from the south Atlantic I can’t imagine it’s been smooth sailing. I can’t quite see who this was aimed at. Maybe it was one of those cheap cruises to move a ship from one part of the world to another in preparation for another cruise.

      I know this has nothing to do with the virus story but it’s just what stuck out in my mind when I saw the route the ship has taken.

    11. Floschi123456 on

      Boy, do I look forward to knitting again during the lockdown. Good times!

    13. cpteric on

      I am alwas amazed how hard can it be to find and trace someone when you’re tracked every step of the way on any trip or transaction through multiple airports, frontiers, ticket purchases…

      Regardless of how big this thing is, nothingburger or “shit, here we go again”, the fact that everyone originating from the trip or in the flights of the st. helen early-leavers hasn’t yet been found by all means, isolated and hurried for testing, is absurd.

      One thinks we could’ve learnt from covid.

    15. Life_Without_Lemon on

      Why are they releasing them… quarantine everyone on another ship. Doesn’t hurt to take precautions especially the amount of damage Covid caused.

    18. Towel4 on

      Covid exhaustion is still rampant and people will not give a fuck about tracing and being responsible.

      Scary stuff.

    19. el_toille on

      Is humanity really this stupid that it cannot learn from the covid pandemic?

    20. snuuginz on

      I’m absolutely not trying to downplay this, it’s a serious situation and health authorities should treat it as such, but it sounds like even this extra-transmissible version of Hantavirus is still way less transmissible than something like a cold. I have to assume that the close quarters of a cruise ship made the spread more serious, and I’ll bet that there was some cleaning standard not being followed on the boat that helped lead to the outbreak.

    22. theTrueLodge on

      Also, reports say that the couple that initially contracted the virus did so on a wildlife expedition near a landfill. Which means, anyone else that might’ve been with them could’ve also been exposed. I’m sure that WHO has a list of those people on that wildlife expedition and is tracing where they all went as well. I’m assuming they didn’t all get on the cruise ship which means some of them may have flown. I’m afraid to say, cat is out of the bag.

    23. Timmy_2_Raaangz on

      Hey, at least the US fired all of our scientists and replaced them with Fox Entertainment hosts and pedophiles from the Epstein files. I’m sure our heroine shooting, roadkill raccoon dick eating Secretary of Health will be right on it!

    25. russian_octopus on

      Why are people being let off the boat, if it’s not to go get treated medically. Stay your ass on the boat and quarantine.

    26. Fransjepansje on

      Might be time to stop with these floating virus farms, spreading disease at every stop

    28. EVE_WatsonCrick on

      <conversation that never happens>
      Hello this is KLM how can we help you?
      I am supposed to get on a flight today but I’m feeling sick, can I change my low-fare (but still expensive) ticket?
      Of course…

    29. bca327 on

      Seeing as America is already suffering from an infection of the Fanta Virus does that make us immune to hantavirus?

      /s

    30. NoArrival8249 on

      If I ever needed *another reason* to not go on a cruise ship, here it is I guess.

    31. Firov on

      Don’t worry people. RFK’s brain worm is working hard to figure out a solution! 

    32. M4hkn0 on

      Great. So the isolated island of St Helena could be facing an outbreak. This story gets worse and worse.

    37. Pinku_Dva on

      Just what I wanted, another viral outbreak in a single decade alone! The 2020s are really shaping up to be one of the worst decades of recent.