Anyone else worried about Andes virus transmission after the cruise ship cases?

[BabyWally]

Hantavirus is on a cruise ship. Where you get that from rodent droppings. There's a subnet of that virus and it's called Andesvirus and apparently that is human to human transmission.

Anyone else worried about the possibilty of that virus getting out of hand and the possibilty of a Panasonic this year?

There's no wat that virus is contained on the ship any more because one of the people who died travelled on a plane while ill and died in an airport.

That virus is travelling the world in many people right now but we won't know the extent of it yet because the incubation period can be so long 1-8 weeks apparently to show symptoms.

My issue is that I learned from covid that nobody cares when they are ill and showing symptoms of illness or sickness, it doesn't have to be covid, it's everything, it could be norovirus and people just pass it on as a fact of life and a badge of honour.

Many people are just not able to reflect when they are ill and just minimising passing on whatever they have.

There's the world cup in the summer time too and that will bring many people together.

Does anyone know if people are infectious with Andesvirus during incubation and before symptoms appear? Because if that's the case, we are f*cked.

No not worried. I see on the news 2 Brits which were on the ship have got to self isolate for up to 6 weeks. I wonder if they will crack open those isolation hotels again for when the all the brits on the boat come home

This. I refuse to live my life in a constant state of flux, due to the constant fear of this, or that. If it is not the threat of war going off in this Country, it is always something else.

Even at the beginning when no one knew its etiology. What did you know that scientists around the world didn’t?

I can promise you now, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. I am 85% certain of this and would bet you a fiver it will not come to anything.

Ps. I do t have the time to write it myself so will share a great passing thought I just had - use as you may. Wouldn't the situation now on board the ship be a great backdrop for a book? You could have a serial killer onboard who starts murdering people but everyone else would thinks it's the virus. No police allowed on board so it could be a real whodunnit

Lock down now

Interesting.

Is it an opportunistic serial killer, or did they plan it all along and introduce the virus to the ship deliberately?
What murder method are they using that looks like it could be viral, or are they just hoping that if they shoot people, everyone will just believe that the virus causes bullet holes as a side effect?
Does the story end with them catching it themselves and dying?
I think this has got legs. We’d need a Poirot character on the boat, à la Death on the Nile.

Apparently 100,000 people get it a year so I don't think that we need to be too worried.

Nope. But if there is a Panasonic, I could do with a new microwave.

I was thinking more Death on the Anti viral

In all seriousness I've been thinking about this for the last 30 minutes and think it could be brilliant. Love the idea of the murderer bringing the virus on board as a distraction, so possibly a science background. And yes I did think there would need to be detective onboard who smells a rat if you'll excuse the pun. Not an obvious employed detective though, someone with undescoverd skills like a young Honeysuckle Weeks.
The climax could be when it's just the 2 of them who survive and they are fighting for control for the ships wheel before it hits land.
I know it sounds a little comical but I honestly think this could work so well as a drama if not a book. I'm getting ahead of myself but I've made 2 A4 pages of notes.

I’m not worried about the virus but I’m 100% here for the book idea.

Oh god I cannot stand people who refuse to listen to experts, the one shit thing about the internet is that everybody thinks that they are able to interpret the avalanches of information that tumble upon us daily. I know what hantavirus is, where it comes from and how it spreads. I also know that there are people out there WAY more qualified than me to look into this thing and react accordingly. I’ll follow their advice and not the advice of somebody who hasn’t listened to or read the official notices about incubation and transmission and is instead focusing on people going to work unwell and wearing their illnesses as ‘badges
of honour’. Fucks sake. Sorry, that’s harsh but really, let’s trust the experts a bit more hey? They did, after all, help us get through Covid.

Apparantly the Andesvirus has been around since the 90s but it was contained in south America. It happened mainly in rural areas in Argentina and Chile and it was usually contained.

The problem now is not it got on a Cruise ship and onto a flight or more.

I just hope it doesn't it out of hand, that's all.

Apparantly there's a case in France but the oersonw wasnt on the ship. The person was on a flight with the lady of the first person who died on the ship. Who developed symptoms and died in an airport.

It's just people just don't have the will to do what is right and that is to isolate from other people and wear masks and carry out good hygiene and manners.

Go home @BabyWally, you’re drunk.

Why are you worried? Do you suffer with anxiety generally? Most people are not concerned about this. Worrying doesn’t change anything. Just get on with your life as normal if you can. It’ll be ok.

Multiple people have said they are not worried and the reason why OP.

But I am here for the detective story plot.

No, not worried. I sense that may make little difference to how you feel though.

Same i didnt fall for all that crap.
And i broke all the rules.

2 people left th chip and made their way home.
They've been asked to self isolate.

Which means they may or may not already have spread it far and wide.

Yes, even as over 7 million people died horrible deaths, MN was full of blithely unconcerned people.

What’s with all the scaremongering on MN I swear that some people are just waiting for an excuse to hide away in their houses again for months scared to put their bins out “ just in case” and scrubbing their tins of beans from Tesco. Wasn’t it only in March this year that there was a massive meningitis outbreak predicted in the press, obviously devastating for the families of the 2 young people who died, People die all the time, apparently more than 6,000 people in the U.K. die in accidents in their homes so not even that’s guaranteed to be safe. Just live your life for goodness sake and stop reading scare stories in the press.

Also some staff members on the boat are sick with the virus. I would expect that the staff are not mingling with the guests on board and wouldn't have direct close contact yet they have the virus.

One of them is the doctor who treated the patients on board. So would have had direct close contact. As for the other staff, who says they caught it from guests? They may well have caught it from the same source as the other guests, which was not necessarily on board. With an incubation time that long, they could have caught it ashore.

This is quite an interesting article, and it suggest that since those two people have no symptoms, they’re unlikely to have spread it at all, let alone far and wide.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/06/health/andes-strain-hantavirus-explained

The other crew member is reportedly a tour guide

That supports the hypothesis then, I suppose.

Dude, it’s the New England Journal of Medicine. If you’re as paranoid about viruses as you are about links, no wonder you’re freaking out.