Hantavirus

I'm not worried about it. The bad is the mortality rate, the good is the very low transmission rate and it's being a known virus which is behaving as expected for that virus and shows no variation on genetic sequencing.

There may well be another Covid in the future, but this isn't it.

It was bound to happen. There will probably be cases emerging for several weeks. Hopefully, those affected will be responsible and isolate (are they receiving financial support to do so?)

Yes, asymptomatic cases are a worry.

And now another one today..?

Two more have it a French lady & USA citizen

Quite

fancythat

I am now in the, this could be a big problem, camp.

Two people somewhere, who were reported as symptom free, now have it.

Couldnt care less about "experts" or the WHO, what they say.
In fact, if the WHO says "all good", I would then think it is worse than things look.

What concerns me is that someone could be asymptomatic but still be carrying the disease and transmit it to others who might be more vulnerable or susceptible to it.

And from the other thread, incubation period is up to 60 days.
Again, yikes.

Yes I’m worried I’ve read about the death rate being over 40%

Yikes. That is high.

I also dont care about "how it is caught", "cant be caught by such and such", etc, as said by "experts".

I am not going back to, believing experts, re any international illness or virus.
They have been proven to be less than useless. In my opinion.

I am now in the, this could be a big problem, camp.

Two people somewhere, who were reported as symptom free, now have it.

Couldnt care less about "experts" or the WHO, what they say.
In fact, if the WHO says "all good", I would then think it is worse than things look.

Many countries did introduce travel bans during Covid.

I think during covid lots of scientists suggested some international travel )in general) just isn’t safe because of this sort of thing

But I imagine they were ignored like the other scientists

gene hackman wife died from it

😲 of course, I forgot that. It was just last year and in Santa Fe.

Sodapop it was a landfilled site that houses some very special rare birds The locals avoid it but foreign ‘bird people’ are delighted to go, unfortunately the rat poo can be carried on shoes

this version of hanta can be between humans
i dealt with it in new mexico but not that kind
southwest(n.m.arizona etc usa) the natives can tellyou about what we call the hanta now 3000yrs at least
barns cellars caves anywhere
the desert air drys the feces and piss
and theres alotof water so cleaning is hard to do bleach before it is cleaned 1993 was aweful
it is scary
i heard that aussies had dealt with it to

genehackman wife died from it

www.cbsnews.com/news/what-to-know-about-hantavirus-pulmonary-syndrome-gene-hackman-wife-betsy-arakawa/

Yes I’m worried I’ve read about the death rate being over 40% but are the people being sent away to self isolate are they being sent away to a special unit for 45 days or sent home to isolate if being sent home are they going to listen and isolate or go about their normal day like they’re not meant too also they say it’s difficult to spread human to human but what if someone coughs or sneezes then touches a surface and someone else touches in a bit later like in a shop will it be spread that way

I'm convinced there's an underlying reason somewhere why a proportion of people on a cruise succumb to a virus, whereas others don't.

We recently went on our first cruise, a river one, and by 4 days in about 50% were coughing and spluttering. You could hear them in the dining room, in the bar, on the coaches and several of them were having food brought to their cabins and left outside in the corridor afterwards.

DH and I were sure we'd pick up something, but we had a lucky escape. The only thing we could think is that we travel on ferries across the Channel four or five times a year so our bodies are somehow used to the air con!! (You can tell I'm no scientist.)

What I'm saying is, that if you're on a cruise with a virus you might catch it or you might not.

fancyflowers

Not really concerned but if anything it has made me even more certain that I would never go on a cruise.

Jane Macdonald was enough to convince me when she kept popping up and singing during a cruise programme my mum used to watch.

Never been on a cruise never wanted to go on a cruise

Not really concerned but if anything it has made me even more certain that I would never go on a cruise.

Not inthe slightest. I won't come into contact with wild rats that carry it, or it's highly unlikely. I'm not on that ship or in close prolonged contact with anyone that has been.
Anyone that has is either still on the ship, dead, in hospital being quarantined or in isolation somewhere else. Even if it has been spread and not yet detected it still couldn't cause a pandemic, the media is doing what it always does... Scaremongering.

To put it into context, ebola is still killing people in Africa, the plague is still infecting people in parts of the world, leprosy still exists. Nobody is worried about any of those becoming a pandemic, and ebola is far more contagious than hantavirus.

Kandinsky

Not worried no ( not yet anyway ) but it’s made my mind up about going on a cruise.

Us too. We were looking at northern lights cruises. My husband is immunocompromised. I think this probably puts paid to it. What is it about cruise ships?
Floating Petrie dishes, I guess 🤷‍♀️

I'm glad they can come home, they've been through a terrible time and it is a known virus & the authorities are being very careful with quarantine & other precautions.
Covid escalated very fast at the beginning & there doesn't appear to be a comparable escalation since the start of this outbreak so I'm not worried.

Apparently they are being dropped off on the Wirral,at a hospital.Why can’t they go back to Argentina ?