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    12 Employees in Quarantine After Incorrect Handling of a Person Infected With Hantavirus
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    12 Employees in Quarantine After Incorrect Handling of a Person Infected With Hantavirus

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    1. Loni09 on

      *A dozen workers at the university medical center in Nijmegen will enter a precautionary quarantine after possible exposure to hantavirus. The 12 employees at the Radboudumc hospital were involved in the case of a patient who tested positive for the viral infection after spending time on the Hondius cruise ship, the hospital said in a statement.*

      *The workers at the hospital did not follow a specific, strict protocol when handling the infected patient’s blood and urine. Despite the risk of infection being low, the workers will remain in “preventive quarantine for six weeks as a precaution,” the hospital wrote on Monday. It has not been revealed whether the people at risk are nurses, orderlies, doctors, medical students, or if they hold other positions…*

    3. Alt123Acct on

      Idk I bought a bunch of purell and they had n95 masks for 50 cents a box at Walgreens when RFK was confirmed a year ago. 

    4. ProductGuy48 on

      Bought some masks today before we run into the exact same shit as last time and there’s not enough of anything to go around any more.

      It’s clear we aren’t capable of containing a parrot in a cage at this point.

    5. heroman3 on

      LMAO doing their best in trying to cause a pandemic from a disease that is not supposed to become pandemic. Jesus christ.

    6. IntelArtiGen on

      I like it when we have more quarantined people than infected people. When we have more infected people than quarantined people, then we’re f***ed.

    7. eldasensei1989 on

      I think it’s more concerning that they’re putting the dutch passengers in home quarantine with blind fate that they’ll follow the quarantine guidelines for 6 straight weeks. Surely that’ll go by smoothly, right?

    8. Afb3212 on

      Shouldn’t have let them off that damn boat. Do what you have to do to deliver supplies, but don’t let them off the boat.

    9. T-Mart-J on

      Is all of this actually worrisome or is it just being over reported because of covid ptsd? Genuine question.

    10. _Xee on

      I’m pretty sure a lot of people miss the 2020-2022 hole in time and a total social paradigm shift.

    15. Cold_Specialist_3656 on

      Letting these people off the ship might turn out to be one of the worst decisions in the history of our species . 

      Why didn’t we air drop them food, fuel up the ship, and let them cruise around for a few months?????? The ship is specifically designed for long term habitation away from land. 

      Most of them had already been sailing on it for a month!!! What’s the big deal about another month???

      100 bucks says they were disembarked after numerous bribes from the cruise industry. 

    17. Orzorn on

      Why were these people being taken off the ship and then out of the country they docked in? They flew them all around the world just to release them each to their countries. I’m almost prepared to call it malicious with how ridiculous it sounds. And yes, I am well aware they’re supposed to be following quarantine procedures, and this article is a great example as to how all the holes in this Swiss cheese of a process can line up to fuck it all up.

    18. sovietarmyfan on

      At this point we’re speedrunning to the next pandemic.

      If other countries were to completely block all flights with the Netherlands i wouldn’t even blame them. It’s very sloppy how my country has been handling this virus so far.

      – Relying on hope that the home quarantined passengers won’t go out.

      – Hospital workers being sloppy with the rules.

      What’s next? “100 new cases discovered by Saturday”?

    20. Indole_pos on

      Ah, lab workers.
      Curious if they were given a heads up. I work in clinical microbiology and they did not warn us of a certain organism being on the differential diagnosis. The specimen arrived in a cracked tube. People were also exposed in other parts of the lab due to this not being communicated.

    23. vegasEd1313 on

      So I guess I’ll be heading to Costco after work to be stocking up on TP and Hand Sanitizer.

    24. Lapcat420 on

      Is it just me- or did they literally empty that ship and send everyone back home to their countries all over the world?

      Why can’t I get games like this in plague inc.

    25. Special-Committee100 on

      I do not have enough air in my lungs to scream loud enough I TOLD YOU SO. Of the 20+ chains of custody, some of which are branching out even within the same country, some are bound to fail.

      There was never a good reason to distribute everyone all over the planet. They should have quarantine insitu.

      And fuck you Tedros.

    26. AliceLunar on

      Whilst I get this isn’t anything like covid, I don’t get why they just can’t take it more seriously for a couple weeks and be done with it instead of this weird casual approach to it that is going to have this simmer on for a while for no good reason.

    27. classicnikk on

      I’m quitting my healthcare job this time. Fuck going through this again lol

    28. TopChard1274 on

      It’s a disaster unfolding live. Astonishing the willing of humanity to shot itself in the foot again 

    29. LoganNolag on

      God it was the easiest thing in the world to contain. Just keep the damn boat parked in the middle of the ocean for 6 weeks and don’t let anyone off. It’s how they treated infected boats for all of history.