“How did the infected rodents/poop/urine/saliva become a problem on that ship.”
The WHO confirmed this is the Andes Strain which can and does do P2P transmission , it’s like Ebola you need to touch saliva, sweat, mucous, faeces, tears or blood and then touch one of your mucous membranes,like an eye, nose, ear, mouth or genitals.
The ships doctor got it and he didn’t go on any excursion he got it most likely from touching a sick passenger in his care.
There is at least one married couple who is likely to be P2P he died first then a few days later the wife died while being medivac to Joburg.
This strain has the potential to get ugly just like Ebola both are hemorrhagic fever virus and both have similar transmission metrics, formites of sweat, saliva and mucous become a real issue with HFV type viruses 24-48 hour surface viability of the virus gets bad bad in close proximity and quarters.
Remember the Dallas Ebola cluster every nurses got it with full PPE one, and the guys family all got it and they just disappeared into CDC care no one heard from them again once they evacuated the apartment where the guy infected them all at. They sent in hazmat teams who had to completely gut it out there was video of full bubble suit dudes hauling away carpets, drywall and furniture totally gutted it and the dumpster was marked biohazard with the universally accepted symbols for that made local news and the social media went nuts at the time.
I knew one of the nurses she hung out at the little east Dallas dive bar my crew frequents. We all got contacted by the CDC when she came back hot and had been at that bar while asymptomatic. How did they know who to contact you ask. Credit card receipts and cell phone location pings is how.
Made for 21 days of all of us doing twice daily temp checks confined to home and daily CDC calls. All our GF and spouses had to quarantine as well. Judge Jenkins issued the order legally for all of Dallas County residents those in Collin County were not under legal mandate but strongly encouraged to isolate for full 21 days this was well before covid.
“There is at least one married couple who is likely to be P2P he died first then a few days later the wife died while being medivac to Joburg.”
That was the couple that did extensive traveling in Argentina prior to the cruise.