OK cruise ship haters....have at it
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170 passengers(Wikipedia). Small potatoes.
Not a hater. Everyone I know who’s been on one loved it. It doesn’t interest me, however. Stories like this don’t help.
Hantavirus is not _generally_ contagious between humans. But conditions aboard the ship must be filthy with rodents and their feces for this to happen.
Ironic that Europe must take in “refugees” without question nor inspection. Yet the folks in Cape Verde have the sense to order the crew and passengers to remain on board while the emergency is sorted out. Surely Europe can dispatch a team and/or hospital ship to assist the cruise ship.
The other day when the headline was Atlantic cruise I thought between the US and Europe it it’s not
I love cruising but I’m not interested in traveling around Africa or South America
“...a Three Hour Tour! ...a Three Hour Tour!..”
The people shouldn’t be contagious, but rats could run off…
West Africa afraid of diseases.
Kinda funny when you think about it.
"Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS), the primary form in the Americas, has a very high fatality rate, generally cited between 35% and 40%. The disease, spread by rodent droppings and saliva, causes severe respiratory failure.
While the New World virus is more severe (up to 40%), Old World hantaviruses typically have a lower fatality rate of 1% to 15%."
More here...
Worth the read.
At least the tent needed to fumigate the ship will not be that large.
Paging Fox Mulder
Paging Fox Mulder
(the hanta virus story/excuse was used in the X-Files movie, and in several episodes, to cover up the actions of the aliens)
...trapped...
There it is.
Hantavirus is what killed Gene Hackman’s wife, or so they say
I took a Viking cruise in the same area. I doubt they got sick from the boat.No cruise passenger is going to be down in the hold breathing in rat urine fumes. If it was spread by food, more people would be sick. I remember going on a cruise sponsored horse farm tour ( cannot remember what town it was in, but near Ushuaia) . I can easily imagine contracting something there, they had sheds and barns, etc. Two crew members also contracted it, so no way did they get it from a hotel that a passenger might have stayed at before the cruise. . I also remember on these ship excursions Viking brings crew members to help escort the passengers.
It’s not the ships it’s filthy people they hire
hantavirus is contracted by contacting infected rodent feces or urine or breathing dust from infected rodent feces ... sanitation must be atrocious on that boat ...
