As the Trump administration sought to reassure Americans this week that a potential hantavirus outbreak posed little risk to the public, Dr. Brian Christine, one of the top public health officials in charge of infectious disease policy, stood before reporters in Nebraska promising a response “grounded in science” and “grounded in transparency.”
Evidence from previous outbreaks, including the Epuyén cluster in Argentina, in which three patients accounted for 21 (64%) of 33 secondary infections, indicates that person-to-person transmission of Andes virus infection can occur through close contact.
And that was on land. There’s no precedent for a cruise ship, a hilariously infectious environment. Fuck cruise ships forever, I wish we could just ban them.
One person got it from sitting on an airplane seat two rows behind somebody that had it.
While I agree cruise ships are incubators of pathogens, and full of fat people, the last part being neither here nor there but I’m going to mention it anyway, I am starting to get a little worried about this.
Not a lot I don’t think it’s likely, but if Hanta became more infectious it could be a really big fucking deal. What if some assholes were doing gain of function testing and it got loose?
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00934-7/fulltext?rss=yes
And that was on land. There’s no precedent for a cruise ship, a hilariously infectious environment. Fuck cruise ships forever, I wish we could just ban them.
One person got it from sitting on an airplane seat two rows behind somebody that had it.
While I agree cruise ships are incubators of pathogens, and full of fat people, the last part being neither here nor there but I’m going to mention it anyway, I am starting to get a little worried about this.
Not a lot I don’t think it’s likely, but if Hanta became more infectious it could be a really big fucking deal. What if some assholes were doing gain of function testing and it got loose?