• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Signs and symptoms of HPS due to Andes virus appear 4 to 42 days after exposure.

    https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/about/andesvirus.html

    Almost a month and a half time hivit symptoms post infection…

    The issue is they’re putting everyone on planes, then quarantining them. But only for two weeks…

    It’s been worse than usual lately, but I’m really struggling how people can’t see this is clearly not being handled correctly. Like, clearly if one person is infectious, they infect everyone on the flight, and then they may not even show symptoms until a month later…

    https://apnews.com/article/hantavirus-cruise-ship-hondius-tenerife-1c43c66d2b0555cf946d9e57fc65f1d4

    The Spanish flight was today (yesterday?) saying:

    We would already be seeing it if it was that bad.

    Is just wild bro, and what’s fucked is that’s the prevailing attitude, as a species we just don’t understand anything but immediate consequences anymore

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      One of my friends is an epidemiologist. She does infectious disease stuff. She’s not too concerned about it, and I trust her expertise over media sensationalism.

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        and I trust her expertise over media sensationalism.

        What media sensitationalism?

        There is none, that’s what my comment was about

        Even just look at that link about how kitted out the WHO workers were during the evacuation.

        The issue is individual countries not treating it seriously, obviously that would include some epidemiologists.

        Like, not saying she’s not competent, but don’t forget what happened to the first surgeon that started washing his hands. It doesn’t matter if she has a degree and decades of experience if she doesn’t have a questioning attitude and just goes with the flow.

        Because, again, the problem is that attitude being pervasive in the first place…

        There are just so many different ways you’re missing the point here buddy…

        Edit:

        I mean, even if she’s “competent” in her day to day work…

        If she isn’t concerned about andes variant as an epidemiologist, she isn’t paying attention and hasn’t been for years at least

        In 2024, the NIH identified several families of viruses — including hantaviruses — that were extremely dangerous and had no effective vaccines or treatments, making them of special concern for their potential to cause a pandemic. To better prepare for future pandemics, the NIH awarded a series of grants through the ReVAMPP program to study these viruses and develop new tools to combat them, including the grant that established the Provident consortium and enabled this latest study. McLellan and other Provident researchers have simultaneously been working to find ways to address other viruses that health officials have identified as especially dangerous in an outbreak, such as measles and Nipah virus.

        https://news.utexas.edu/2026/03/11/scientists-map-deadly-hantavirus-bringing-treatments-one-step-closer/

        And that article was written before the cruise ship outbreak, it literally can’t be “media sensationalism” about the cruise out real, that’s not how linear time works.