KLM flight attendant hospitalized after contact with hantavirus

kleiba2

The interesting (and concerning) part is that hantavirus was previously believed not to be transmissible from person to person. But with the recent outbreak, this understanding might have to be updated.

semiquaver

I’m sure this is not the start of another pandemic but these kind of stories sure do give me the same vibe as the sort we were seeing in Jan/Feb 2020...

Jamesbeam

Man, I am glad the US didn’t get out of the WHO, and there is a sane and responsible HHS Secretary with RFK Jr., whose brain totally did not get eaten by a parasite. I mean, there are only 300 or so cases recorded in history of the Andes hantavirus human-to-human transmission. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040#ap1&uccL... And Trump, the wise man he is, didn’t cut a single dollar on science, especially that of epidemiology and emerging priority pathogens. You guys are lucky there were no passengers coming back to the US and that there is no global event like the soccer World Cup starting soon or the 250th anniversary of the United States. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/us/hantavirus-cruise-us-p... I wouldn’t be worried too much, especially knowing how the president dealt with the coronavirus in his first term. They are just going to shine some light into your veins and/or inject disinfectants into you, and your suffering will be over in no time. I wish my country had an administration that is this good at everything they do, but we wouldn’t know what to do with all those wins. Best of luck, Americans.

ajay-b

The media has reported that two British passengers were allowed to fly home, to self isolate, but I am trying to wrap my head around why this was allowed. Given what we learned from the pandemic, would it not have made more sense to have them isolated locally rather than flying back?

qwertyuiop_

Why would “the authorities” release other passengers to come in contact with more people instead of quarantining them ? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dozens-of-passengers-lef...