@saikenMD @SkyAboveMe_Art How long can the virus survive on a surface like that?
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If I had to describe myself in three words, I would say "Not good at following directions, and very handsome." He/Him, 31, transphobes blocked on sight
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@SkyAboveMe_Art yeah, I can definitely see it happening
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What the heck is a hantavirus? 🗒️
Everyone's asking if we have a new pandemic on our hands, but it's important to break down the facts that we know about the virus, and understand the developing information as it comes. But also I'm having flashbacks to 2019 in MS2 year microbio where our professor quickly went over poxvirus, coronavirus, or hantavirus and said they were low-yield because we'd never see them in clinical practice...
Ok, so if you're a nerd, hantaviruses are (-)RNA segmented, enveloped viruses with a helical capsid (shoutout to the bunyaviridae SketchyMicro vid). They're a zoonotic virus that are transmitted from rodents (like the western deer mouse or the bank vole) to humans through droplets that contain the virus particles. The viruses are found in the animals' droppings, urine, and saliva, and become airborne when cleaning or sweeping up the area of infected rats. Hantavirus has the highest clinical incidence in South America and the Southwestern US, and worse in rural areas with less controlled sanitation.
In humans, hantavirus infection causes generalized inflammation, leading to endothelial damage causing increased vascular permeability ("leaky capillaries"). Two unique diseases that it can cause are Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) and Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Failure Syndrome (HRFS). In HPS, a few days of flu-like symptoms spiral into full-on pulmonary edema and shock, requiring ICU-level care. This carries a 30-40% mortality rate. In HRFS, the namesake triad of fever, internal bleeding, and kidney failure occur. This has a 3-15% mortality rate.
The most common causes of HPS are from the Sin Nombre virus (SNV) in North America, and the Andes virus (ANDV) in South America. SNV is transmitted by the western deer mouse and behaves as most other hantaviruses do, having a big outbreak in the Southwestern US in 1993. ANDV is transmitted by the long-tailed pygmy rice rat, and had a bad outbreak in Argentina and Chile in 1995-1996. This is significant because it revealed the FIRST EVER human-to-human transmission of hantavirus and remains of big concern for this cruise ship situation.
So the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak is an ongoing case, but the short of it is that the ship left from Argentina on April 1st, and a passenger died on April 11th. The body was removed from the ship on April 24th (my birthday...) in Saint Helena, a small island in between South America and Africa. At that time, the passenger's wife and 29 other passengers also disembarked the ship. The wife then flew to South Africa, and was shortly admitted to a hospital in Johannesburg. She died on April 26th. Of the remaining people on the ship, a third passenger died on May 2nd.
There are currently 8 suspected cases, 5 confirmed cases, and 3 deaths. As of today, May 7th, the WHO has confirmed that the hantavirus strain identified in 2 of the deceased victims is the ANDV strain that can transmit between humans. The ship is still sailing, and as of yesterday is en route to Tenerife, where they expect to disembark the remaining passengers and evacuate them to their home countries for treatment.
So far, the WHO has done a good job of tracking the passengers and close contacts, but a droplet transmission disease is always precariously staged to get out of control, especially in close contact situations like in airplanes. One of the flight attendants on the initial patient's wife's flight was already admitted to a hospital due to infection suspicion. As a viral disease, there is no specific cure at the moment, other than provide aggressive medical support in an ICU setting to fight off the impending cardiopulmonary collapse.
For now, we have no evidence to support that this situation points towards pandemic levels. The passengers have all been tracked, and in America, the CDC has already began to closely monitor the 6 (asymptomatic) American passengers that have returned to Arizona, California, Georgia, and Virginia. It is certainly an outbreak, but the public health risk is still much lower than what we were dealing with during COVID.
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Logan Paul is something FAR worse than a tourist. He's ruining your hobbies, on purpose, for profit.
And he's not alone. youtu.be/W2x-UQpiARc
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I’m the DJ at your sister’s baby shower and I’m really bad at it
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@KevinTPorter The Defying Gravity drop was honestly kind of insane
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NORTHERN LION WHAT ARE YOU DOING
Josh Young@JoshYoung
I'm not sure what to make of this. A cruise ship is zooming through the Strait of Hormuz
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잊지말자 ai 그림체라는 건 세상에 존재하지 않는다 ai새끼들이 나의 작가님들 그림체를 훔친거다
제오@ZeO_qhrud
왼쪽 처럼 그리는 호요 외주 일러레 있는데 그분 그림 ai 학습 당한 듯ㅜㅜㅠㅜㅜㅜ
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@iamethanforreal She’s hiding something, where is the smoke coming from ??!
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right wing "centrist" israel first democrats would rather defend funding a country that does demonic things like this instead of listening to the demands of 90% of their base
HatsOff@HatsOffff
Israeli soldiers tortured this 18-month-old baby in Gaza to force a confession out of his father during an interrogation
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One day, Donald Trump will die, and his supporters will try to punish the people who say things like this.
Shelby Talcott@ShelbyTalcott
Trump on the death of Robert Mueller: “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.”
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@DarthBuzzard @Toraccel_ Came here to say this! Charles Martinet the original and still GOAT
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@Toraccel_ That's a pretty good example for the first full body VTuber, though Mario was technically done before Donkey Kong just as a face rig.
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@twumblunni @AUTOMATON_ENG Read the article. The head canon was about this one slowpoke specifically, not slowpoke in general
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@AUTOMATON_ENG Well this is just one game's Slowpoke. There's billions of them in the world, right? People can still headcanon whatever they want for their own Slowpoke.
Also, what pronoun did it use in Mystery Dungeon? Surely it musta already had one ages ago right?
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Pokémon Pokopia has shattered a popular Japanese headcanon that Slowpoke is a cute, sleepy gyaru
Slowpoke's shocking choice of first-person pronouns seems to be the reason
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there's something distinctly British about making a PSA that's like "isn't this new policy scary and unfair and dystopian" except in explicit support of the policy in question
Jack Mac@JackMac
wtf is happening in the UK man
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I don’t want to see any more Trump ailments. Call me when it’s over. “80 year old fat ass mothafucka that eat burger all day has new rash” give me a break. Who gives a fuck.
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Every time cultural conservatives get a celebrity ally it’s someone ten years past their prime and in the midst of a public mental breakdown. Just something to consider
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This has my dying bro 😭 Shia is one of us fr
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