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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh, I grew up in the Southwest and we had a hantavirus outbreak in the early 90s. That strain showed no ability to transmit human to human, but it became very widespread in the rodent population, so I remember a lot of messaging around taking extreme caution when cleaning out or even spending time in spaces likely to have rodent droppings. There was some paranoia at the time but you were just advised to wear an N95 type mask while doing things like sweeping out the basement or checking a crawl space, which honestly is a good idea regardless.

The Andes strain has some minimal ability to transmit human to human but it doesn't travel well. So unless you plan on sniffing rat droppings in South American anytime soon, you're probably fine.

It's wild to me how this is being reported and received by some members of the public. I mean, it's not totally nothing but it's nothing like Covid. There were only two confirmed cases on that whole ship and those two people were quarantined. There's no evidence that hantavirus spreads via asymptomatic transmission, either. So you can calm down. This is not Covid 2.0.[/quote]

There are 11 confirmed cases now… seems like it does spread from person to person a bit better than they originally thought.[/quote]

All confirmed cases have been people on the boat. There's one person off the boat who interacted with a passenger and is now being watched as symptomatic, but she is not yet confirmed to have hantavirus. She made that just be sick (she's a flight attendant).

For the people on the boat, it's impossible to know if any were infected by other people versus being infected by the same non-human source.

So no, there's no indication it spreads easily between people. This strain has been shown to have only minimal ability to spread from human contact.[/quote]

The two who were first infected caught it at a landfill and brought it on the ship. It was then passed around.[/quote]

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