WHO says hantavirus cruise outbreak is not the next pandemic
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Updated · The Washington Post · May 8
WHO says hantavirus cruise outbreak is not the next pandemic
7 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · May 8
Health officials are trying to contain spread on a cruise ship, while experts say the strain typically needs prolonged or intimate contact to infect people.
That makes it far less contagious than Covid-19, easing fears that the rodent-borne disease could trigger a global pandemic despite its potentially deadly effects in humans.
The assessment aims to reassure the public as authorities respond to the shipboard outbreak and monitor risks from a virus usually linked to rodent exposure.
With a 40% death rate, why aren't officials worried this cruise ship virus will become the next pandemic?
After COVID and now hantavirus, are cruise ships a fundamental and unfixable risk to public health?
Three are dead from a rare person-to-person virus. How will officials find the 23 passengers who have already flown home?