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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I'm sure this will spread like wildfire, just like monkeypox did.[/quote]
Monkeypox was met with an extremely robust public health response across the world. Had it not been it would have been ugly, not necessarily COVID ugly, but definitely bad.

ANDES Hantavirus is unlikely to be the next major pandemic, but it is showing us how badly worldwide public health infrastructure has eroded. It's being handled very badly and none of the lessons that should have been learned from SARS, Ebola, and COVID are being applied. ANDES Hantavirus is the only hanta virus that can transmit human to human. It has a long incubation period and far too many people have been exposed. Because it's been confined to Argentina and Chile, and like other hantaviruses is pretty rare, it hasn't been studied extensively. We do know that transmission can occur with fairly limited contact, but with supportive treatment, it is much less lethal than the hantavirus we have in the US. Unless there's a mutation event this is probably in the dozens category but could go to the hundreds. They really effed up on the failure to quarantine and subsequently contact trace, and the instructions being given to known contacts aren't great. So it's going to be worse than it would have been.

The next pandemic is very much a when not if question. But I don't think this is it. There's not much you can do on this aside from avoiding obviously sick people. They're contagious before symptoms, but once symptoms hit, they are extremely contagious. The early onset signs are very generic, headache, fever, diarrhea, progressing quickly to respiratory and death. Given the 100% mortality rate without supportive treatment vs 40% with I would not hesitate to ask for testing if I even thought it was a possibility.[/quote]

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