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Posted on 05/07/2026 6:54:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Despite a stream of alarmist headlines, the World Health Organization is emphasizing that the risk to the general public is very low.
"This is not the start of a COVID pandemic," said Maria Van Kerkhove, the director of epidemic and pandemic management at the WHO, speaking at a press conference on Thursday. "This is not COVID, this is not influenza. It spreads very, very differently."
There are not many cases of human-to-human transmission, so medical professionals and scientists ... believe that hantavirus spreads primarily between people who are showing symptoms and in close contact. between people who are showing symptoms and in close contact.
"Transmission between people has been associated with close and prolonged contact, particularly among household members, intimate partners and people providing medical care,"
Many experts are looking back at a 2018-2019 outbreak in Argentina for clues. In that outbreak, the virus spread among birthday party guests who were seated near each other, a 2020 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine explains. Then, the virus spread further at the wake of the first person who fell ill and died.
Hantavirus can cause an infection that starts with flu-like symptoms, including fatigue, fever, muscle aches and at times diarrhea and vomiting. In some patients it can progress to a severe, and sometimes deadly, respiratory infection.
The death rate, according to the CDC, can be between 30 and 40%, although Marrazzo said this is likely an overestimate.
"While those are very scary numbers we often don't know what the denominator of people infected is, because mild cases might be missed."
There is no over-the-counter test for hantavirus. So it's often only the sick people who show up at the doctor and get tested. That means the mortality rate might appear higher than it actually is.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
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If they attempt to lock us up again the guns will come out.
Fortunately, the U.S. is no longer a part of WHO. They have no authority over us. Never did, tbh.
Situation doesn’t do a whole lot for the public image of the cruise industry, though.
Dont csre... im wearing three masks, getting a dozen shots snd closing my eyes so i dont get hanta virus from the world wide internets /s
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