Posted on 05/10/2026 9:17:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The hantavirus cruise continues to stay on everyone’s mind as many of us prepare for the possibility of experts enforcing mask mandates and quarantine protocols. I don’t think it will come to that, but those who disembarked from a cruise ship that left Argentina last April are being monitored for exposure to a rare strain of the pathogen, which can be transmitted from person to person.
Hantavirus “Patient Zero” has been identified as Leo Schilperoord, a 70-year-old Dutch ornithologist who visited a landfill in Argentina, containing rodents potentially carrying the Andes virus strain.
pic.twitter.com/6EHWy2RH5u— Interesting AF (@interesting_aIl) May 9, 2026
Usually, hantavirus is spread by infected rodents through their urine or feces. It’s a rare strain, which is the good news. The bad news is that it has a 40 percent mortality rate. Who was patient zero? We’ve identified that person (via NYT):
Patient Zero in the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak has been identified as ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, whose passion for birds may have cost him his life.
The 70-year-old man and his wife, Mirjam Schilperoord, 69, were on a five-month trip to South America. They first landed in Argentina on Nov. 27, and traveling through Chile, Uruguay and then back to Argentina in late March, where they went on a fateful birdwatching adventure.
The couple — from Haulerwijk, a small village of 3,000 people in the Netherlands — were identified in obituaries published in their monthly village magazine.
[…]
When the Schilperoords returned to Argentina on March 27, they visited a landfill four miles outside the city of Ushuaia.
The spot, overrun with trash, is avoided like the plague by its residents, but serves as a pilgrimage point for birdwatchers from all over the world in search of a rare creature — the white-throated caracara, nicknamed Darwin’s caracara after famed evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin, the first to collect it.
The Ushuaia landfill is where Argentinian authorities suspect the Dutch couple inhaled particles from the feces of long-tailed pygmy rice rats, which carry the feared Andes strain of the hantavirus — the only form known to transmit from human to human.
So far, the federal government has no plans to impose a mandatory quarantine on Americans aboard this infected cruise ship, which recently arrived in the Canary Islands. Six states are monitoring passengers who were on board. Hantavirus has a long incubation period of up to eight weeks.
Hantavirus Ship Passenger Attended Wedding After Leaving Cruise
https://t.co/BhpyDG7E8d— Jess (@MeetJess) May 9, 2026
JUST IN: The cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has officially arrived in Spain’s Canary Islands.— Polymarket (@Polymarket) May 10, 2026
A CDC official said the federal government doesn't plan to have the repatriated American cruise ship passengers quarantine upon arrival in Nebraska. https://t.co/BJ034SzI4p— ABC News (@ABC) May 9, 2026
NEW: 6 states are now monitoring passengers — and others — who may have crossed paths with people aboard the cruise ship linked to the hantavirus outbreak.
Virginia, Georgia, California, Arizona, and Texas are tracking both passengers and potential contacts. New Jersey is monitoring individuals who may have interacted with someone from the ship.The outbreak, which originated aboard the MV Hondius, has been linked to at least 3 deaths and 8 reported cases as of May 8, according to reports citing the World Health Organization.
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You don’t believe in cracking down on rodents? I do, and won’t change on that. I cleaned out my hoarder dad’s garage and wore a mask. There was about an inch of mouse poop in his garage. Maybe it was rat poop. It was awful Yes, crack down on rodents.
Going to a trash dump proved costly for them. I like watching birds, but going to a dump to look for a rare bird? Not for me….
ChatGPT:
The outbreak you’re referring to is the current 2026 outbreak of Andes hantavirus linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius, which appears to have originated in southern Argentina or nearby Patagonia. The key concern is that the Andes strain is the only hantavirus known to spread person-to-person under some circumstances.
Looking at previous outbreaks of the same strain gives a fairly clear picture of how these events usually unfold in humans and how they are contained.
What happened in previous human outbreaks?
The most important historical example was the 2018–2019 Epuyén outbreak in Patagonia, Argentina. It became the first well-documented large hantavirus outbreak with confirmed human-to-human transmission.
Course of the outbreak
The outbreak caused 34 confirmed infections and 11 deaths.
Investigators later found that transmission mainly occurred through:
prolonged close indoor contact, family caregiving, social gatherings, and shared exposure during symptomatic illness.
Several chains of infection were traced to:
a birthday party, a funeral, and close personal interactions with symptomatic patients.
Unlike airborne viruses such as measles or COVID-19, spread was relatively inefficient. Most casual contacts did not become infected. Transmission usually required close exposure to respiratory secretions during the early symptomatic phase.
Clinically, people typically developed: fever, muscle aches, fatigue,
then in severe cases rapidly progressive lung failure (hantavirus pulmonary syndrome).
Fatality rates in Andes virus outbreaks have often approached 30–40%.
How was it stopped?
The outbreak was contained through aggressive classical public-health measures rather than medication or vaccination.
Authorities used:
rapid case isolation,
intensive contact tracing,
quarantine of exposed people,
movement restrictions,
and masking/respiratory precautions.
Specific measures in Epuyén included:
mandatory home quarantine for exposed residents,
monitoring contacts for symptoms during the incubation period,
restricting gatherings, isolating patients in medical facilities,
and encouraging mask use.
One judge reportedly ordered 85 residents to remain at home for a month to interrupt transmission chains.
The outbreak eventually burned out because:
the virus does not spread efficiently between humans,
transmission usually requires close contact,
infected people become very sick quickly,
and strict quarantine interrupted the small transmission chains.
What experts learned from that outbreak
The 2018–2019 event fundamentally changed scientific understanding of hantaviruses because it proved:
Andes virus can sustain limited human-to-human transmission,
but it still does not behave like a highly contagious respiratory pandemic virus.
That’s why health agencies currently describe the public risk from the 2026 cruise outbreak as low, despite the international contact tracing effort.
“A CDC official said the federal government doesn’t plan to have the repatriated American cruise ship passengers quarantine upon arrival in Nebraska.”
This tells me they WANT another pandemic! I’m sure Pfizer, et al are feverishly working on a new mRNA vaccine as we speak, to be rolled out only when there are enough cases to make it highly profitable.
We Know How the Hantavirus Outbreak Occurred on That Cruise Ship
It's all in the timing coordination with multiple world events.
"That cruise ship" certainly has attracted the world's attention in its time. And Hantavirus is not just a word play on hunt a virus...
Hondius is a Dutch surname, predominantly found in the Netherlands, that serves as a Latinized form of the Flemish/Dutch name de Hondt, meaning "the dog" or "hound". Originating in the late Middle Ages, it likely functioned as a nickname for a hunter, a dog trainer, or someone with, or a person with, loyal or keen traits, later Latinized to Hondius during the Renaissance.
Then there's the king of the beasts, the symbol for the tribe of Judah:
HONDIUS , just move the N:
HOD IN US
Hod = majesty, a characteristic symbolized by a lion. Regal splendor, as in the glory of the First Temple. Not like that bit of information is floating around in "isolation", in the desert -- the same could be said for the Jews:
Yehudim -- hod literally inside:
יהודים
Reminds me of Cyrus. Why would a royal, majestic people even need permission?
If you turn things around, Babylon [בבל] reverses to levav, heart [לבב], and more related to blaze up.
2 Chronicles 36, the last words of the Tanakh:
18 And all the vessels of the ❤️ house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the ❤️ house of the LORD, and the treasures of the ❤️ king, and of his princes; all these ❤️❤️❤️ he brought to Babylon [בבל].
19 And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia;
21 to fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had been paid her sabbaths; for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying:
23 'Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD, the God of heaven, given me; and He hath charged me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all His people--the LORD his God be with him--let him go up.'
(Who's been barking orders at Persia these days? The defacto king.)
Also in the timing is President's Trump's proclamation for a National Sabbath to be kept this upcoming weekend, falling in with Parshat Bamidbar. In the desert...
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- A PROCLAMATION
... which has attracted the Jewish world's attention in its time:
A wise man not only knows the importance of synonyms for usher, he knows that usher = asher [אשר] when it comes to the entire timeline of world history from the beginning (כרונולוגיית אשר).
For as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath
From the earlier post about the quarantine (Q = 70, specifically as threescore and ten) and that 702 (no man's land) reverses to 207:
Sabbath (שבת)
= 702
"No man's land is wasted, unowned land, an uninhabited or desolate area that may be under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied out of fear or uncertainty."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_man's_land
(figurative) A place where no one can or should be present.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_man%27s_land
שטח הפקר
= 702
Turn it around and let there be light:
Also in the timing, the third time's the charm as for assassination attempts, because try #3 was perpetated by a darkness-lover named Cole [קוֹל].
the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation [וַיַּעֲבֶר־קוֹל] throughout all his kingdom...
Strong's H5674 matches the Hebrew עָבַר (ʿāḇar).
Strong's H6963 matches the Hebrew קוֹל (qôl).
proclamation* AND H5674 AND H6963
occurs in 4 verses in the KJV.
Think beyond without leaving home. ❤️
And check the image on the half-shekels.
The WHO lied to us early in Covid and proclaimed it wasn’t human-human transmissible. Then they reversed. Tedros is a ChiCom puppet and is not to be trusted on anything.
“The spot, overrun with trash, is avoided like the plague by its residents, but serves as a pilgrimage point for birdwatchers from all over the world...”
When the locals avoid a plague-ridden area “like the plague”, maybe a smart person would take the hint....
We know...
Seems to me we’ve heard that before.
And coming from the same people, we believe them at our peril.
I will fight anyone who demands I wear a mask. I’m simply not going to do it.
-אשר = ש = relative pronoun prefix that/who/which
'יום ש = Yom Shabbat יום שבת
As long as it is to day, there are 24 hours in today:
T24 (the 24th triangular number) gets you to midnight
= 300 = Ruach Elohim רוח אלהים
Establishment models of business as usual = grievous famine
We Know How the Hantavirus Outbreak Occurred on That Cruise Ship
Besides love and compassion, the Messiah is the ultimate roll model for conscientiousness, the due diligence required to discover the right answers, true healing...
...which goes a long way in explaining why the PTB are always at the ready to disqualify him for any technicality, the eagle-eyed HR employees-of-the-month that they are.
Otherwise people might get a taste of a porterhouse steak and then compare it to the Burger King which is all they previously knew.
white-throated caracara
lolol!!!
Who in their right mind says, “Let’s on vacation! I know where there is a great landfill!”
WTF?
But apparently the non-sponsored guides at least got them back in time for departure. I always love watching the idiots run for the ship. It isn't like they make the departure time a secret.
Yes. There are things that normal people just will not do. Seeking out and visiting a gigantic South American dump —for any reason— is one of them.
Birdwatching ?
More like Turdwatching, amirite ?
Just like most anywhere else in the US where HVirus is already available. Been that way for the 40+ years I’ve been in norhtern CaCaLand. Every year or so some neighbor gets it.
Don’t play around with rodent poo and you are OK.
Having “watch states” is a lie. HVirus exists everywhere. Watch states are just those who have another gov’mt program to ......... “watch”.
I’m never going to wear a mask again. They will have to kill me. I will NOT obey.
Simple. Napalm the garbage dump.
Or maybe do something about the plague spot. Like Napalm.
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