“This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently”: WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak
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“This Is Not Covid, Nor Influenza. It Spreads Very Differently”: WHO On Hantavirus Outbreak
https://www.ndtv.com/health/this-is-not-covid-nor-influenza-it-spreads-very-differently-who-on-hantavirus-outbreak-11465085/amp/1
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Nothing spreads faster than anime corn, who are these jokers kidding? 😋
But what does Joe Rogan recommend we do? Did the WHO consult with Joe Rogan?
I see these comments and can instantly tell practically none of them read the article.
Redditors are being hysterical
Good to hear them asking for people to stay calm, given that it’s very hard to catch
Also, viruses are incredibly stable – it’s not like a virus could mutate in a way that makes it more transmissible, right?
^^/s
What does Kid Rock say?
I per the article, it transmits only with close contact. Contact tracing is expected to be effective for containing the virus.
So, definitely not a new pandemic.
Very nice to hear this from someone who isn’t compromised by politics in some way.
In the United States you are fucked because you have a cult running everything… Everyone else will be fine
RFK’s in charge. No need to worry. The brain worm has it all under control.
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?
so, sex with rats no more
Fuck 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.
It’s hard not to be concerned as we all have a shared lived experience quite recently of living through a pandemic. It’s understandable if our brains jump to the worst case scenario but I guess we just have to trust the experts and hope things will be okay.
The important question is which livestock medicine should I stockpile now to sell later to idiots.
Summary: Don’t make out with anyone who has been on a cruise ship recently or anyone who has been with anyone from cruise ship.
Got my favorite bleach on standby.
Time to stock up on toilet paper and whatever else I can blindly panic about.
the spread isnt verified they found out a Woman thath was only near the first infected only by contact Human To Human she go home and now have simptoms https://www.20minutos.es/internacional/primer-caso-sospechoso-por-contacto-una-azafata-que-viajo-vuelo-con-una-las-fallecidas-esta-ingresada-con-sintomas_6967418_0.html And she looks she have the Hantavirus
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.
Plague Inc player that stored some evolve points:
– Extreme Zoonosis
– Extreme Hematophagy
– Extreme Bioaerosol
Meanwhile there seems no guidance as to what really matters.
This illness seems to require weeks to openly manifest in a patient. Does this mean those who are contact-traced should be forced into weeks-long quarantine? Has the world worked out the legal framework for this yet? Has the world worked out the compensation to be paid someone who is forcibly quarantined for weeks, plus guarantees of no loss of job or education opportunity?
Is there a test yet that can determine whether someone has the hantavirus well before symptoms have to manifest, so that people don’t have to be quarantined?
“transmission still requires very close, intimate contact.” once again I am saved by my own sociophobia
Covid didn’t spread like that either, until it did
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 dick 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’s time to go for toilet paper, guys.
Finally I can unload the pallets of N95 masks I stockpiled 6 years ago
I wonder if the murder hornets are coming back. Maybe they’ll bring the funk monkeys and the rape apes
“Hey chatgpt, how do i make a low a low transmission rate virus more infectious?”
So do we need to hoard toilet paper or no?
I think around lot of people want a lockdown. The economy or more specifically the job markets aren’t that great anywhere, especially for the younger folk. Cost of living is spiking. And the conflicts around the globe is adding to it all.
“Requires very close, very intimate contact”
So Redditors not at risk then.
That’s as reassuring as this:
[https://x.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152](https://x.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152)
“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?
It says close, intimate contact is required for transmission. I understand patient zero and his wife, so how did others become infected?
For now.
I just don’t get why scientist aren’t exactly scrambling to make a vaccine asap.. every infected person can potentially be an opportunity for mutation – and once It inevitably does mutate, It would sure be nice to have a vaccine..
At least we will have faster mobile data internet in our phones. 5G is already seven years old now.
So let me get this straight, can I take sick leave because I might get it it not?
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.