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The hantavirus cruise outbreak may not have started in the Ushuaia garbage dump after all spklr.io/6012EzWMC

Virus in the vents: Study traces COVID spread in high-rise apartment According to a study, a COVID-19 outbreak in a residential building in Spain during the early months of the pandemic likely spread through shared bathroom ventilation ducts. Read more: ow.ly/Oe7t50Z0fav

@WHO Someone should ping this American, let them know the only reason measles is a concern in America, is because of American MAGA. Maybe fill them in as to how the USA hasn't been a member of @WHO since the orange lunatic got re-elected. x.com/jljcolorado/st…

@sciam What's the solution? Stop blaming "the science". Do you know what political leaders will do if you blame anyone but them? The consequences are that politicians will blame you. Blaming the @WHO is how we got "You do You". #YouDoYou #GreedyBastards #WearN95 x.com/RealCheckMarke…

@sciam What's the solution? Stop blaming "the science". Do you know what political leaders will do if you blame anyone but them? The consequences are that politicians will blame you. Blaming the @WHO is how we got "You do You". #YouDoYou #GreedyBastards #WearN95 x.com/RealCheckMarke…

The hantavirus cruise outbreak may not have started in the Ushuaia garbage dump after all spklr.io/6012EzWMC

#hantavirus ➡️ Experts fear ‘third-generation’ hantavirus—what’s the risk? - due to the virus‘s incubation period, ➡️ we likely won’t know whether it has spread to people who weren’t on the cruise ship until ➡️ May 19, according to physician-scientist Steven Quay, who spoke to The Telegraph. - “If cases continue beyond that point, they will probably be generation two to generation three cases,” Quay told the UK-based publication. - Ship passengers were reportedly given a questionnaire evaluating whether they had hugged, kissed or had sexual contact with fellow passengers who may have been affected, or whether they shared food or a bed with the affected passengers. - If no further infections are reported by May 19,➡️ the next important date is➡️ June 21—the day the incubation period will have run its course, meaning no further infections should be expected. - However, if more patients are infected, it would mean the Andes strain of hantavirus that affected the MV Hondius can spread by airborne transmission, making further infections far more concerning. - That would not be unprecedented—previous strains of hantavirus have been far more infectious than others. A 2018 outbreak of the Andes hantavirus in Argentina killed 11 people and infected 34. - Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization (WHO) said he would expect more cases because there was “a lot of interaction” between the ship’s passengers, per Sky News. By Thomas Westerholm msn.com/en-us/health/o…

Osterholm on hantavirus: We’re missing ‘main point of this outbreak’ "Respiratory person-to-person transmission is not new with the Andes hantavirus," CIDRAP Director Michael Osterholm points out cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-… Photo: Chris Cooper / University of MN

@veryvirology This is concerning in the sense that any treatment, vaccine or natural immunity we attempt to produce, is going to have less confidence due to the instability. This increases the risk of re-infection, therefore increases pandemic risk. We hope we are wrong.