normally this isn’t transmitted between humans, however the Andes strain is. guess which one has already spread to every corner of the globe?
40% death rate (compared to corona’s 1%) and incubation time is 8 weeks. cruise ship had a hantavirus cluster with multiple deaths, and 23 passengers have returned home, including to the US.
usually only spreads through close, physical contact (plus maybe coughing and sneezing).
also important to remember: if this starts to spread, robert fucking kennedy will be in charge of the response
This is not good at all. The how can people protect themselves section being all about avoiding rat droppings is particularly lol. There’s a 99% chance that no one needs to do anything about hantavirus, and in the other 1% case, masking while wearing rat droppings is not going to cut it
I doubt it’ll be COVID-like. Hantavirus has been around for more than 30 years and hasn’t led to a COVID like pandemic since then. Think this will go the way of Mpox in the end.
Seems like the play is to wait and see what happens and of course if it explodes then you use it. Nobody’s gonna care about 20 people having a virus when they’re paying $5 for gas.
Andes has been around for a few decades, infecting a couple hundred people each year, and hasn’t caused a global pandemic yet. Seems very unlikely it will now.
Nonsense. You get RFK on camera and ask him what he’s doing to protect Americans from scary-ass viruses coming into the US, the same shit Republicans did when Obama was president. Pound the table and ask for answers before the opportunity goes away. Just insane how the Democratic Party always gets dogwalked by morons.
jesus we better hope this doesn’t take off, bc the science isn’t gonna be science…