AIBU? Hantavirus Liverpool

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I’ve just seen that the Hantavirus is in Liverpool?! They’ve been brought to Liverpool? I’ve got a 2 day work conference there and now I’m worried 😢 I suffer terribly with health anxiety. AIBU?

I am just really looking forward to the inevitable “me and my aunt Beryl definitely had Hanta at Christmas 2025, we went to the GP and he said there was a new virus going around and loads of people were down with it” and “we all knew about Hanta virus at October half term because the school had a letter about the rat licking trip being postponed” posts.

I’m always at that Sainsburys 😂

Lived! But may have loved that direction in my teens!

They’ll be going home to self isolate for 6 weeks. Not strolling around doing a tour of the Liver Building and the Cavern

The OP needs some toilet rolls. A trolley load at least. Best get some pasta, dried yeast and bread flour too.

Although if it's coming from the diseased ridden cesspit that is Liverpool (for clarity, the OPs description not mine), best get some bleach to dowse it in too.

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But spray them with bleach before delivering them!

On my last visit to Liverpool, I was surrounded by four aggressive Scouse seagulls, in a pincer movement to get my chips. I’d had a few fizzy wines though, so my perception might have been a bit off.

@Elliana and @HarriaHen - You might want a look at this. While I'm not interested in scaremongering, I'm also sceptical of complacency. Even (or especially )when it's being promoted by the UKHSA.

On the index patient in Epuyén, Argentina:
During the 90 minutes he was at the party, he infected five others, including two people sitting roughly a foot from him at the same table and two people who were sitting roughly 4 feet away from him at neighboring tables. The fifth person to catch the virus crossed paths with the patient only briefly on their way to the restroom.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/06/health/andes-strain-hantavirus-explained

Hantavirus and Covid are different viruses and spread differently

Tinned tomatoes as well. Will there be any PPE available for the Conference attendees?

Note to self - read the whole post - also avoid the takeaway near Morton roundabout- my uncle said they sold Alsatian in the 70’s so may have moved to rats due to the COL crisis

I read somewhere that with this virus your chance of survival increases by 1% per mile, so there is hope. Just over 1 in 10, but better than certain death.

Hopfully we will get another lock down.

To be fair, I edited it to add the bit about the bleach, so was likely a cross post.

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Isn't there a football chant about Scousers, council houses and eating rats? Seem to remember a S.Korean player being mentioned in it

Its not a specialist hospital for this stuff . Its a staff housing building that they have closed off .
The specialist hospital for this stuff is in Liverpool.

It's the Wirral and therefore a much classier disease ridden cesspit

You have every right to be worried. Years back, when we lived in Scotland, it was a right shit-show with ' Ebola isolation'. Pauline McCafferkey (probably mis-spelt), an Ebola nurse first lied and boarded a BA flight, ill with Ebola and lying about it, then came to Scotland with Ebola, the wonderful Scottish NHS was and is not equal to dealing with Ebola and sent her on a military plane to London for treatment. She returned back to Scotland and fell ill again (!!!!), after which she decided to go round schools to tell little children how exciting it is to work in Africa as a nurse and help people. I must say she went round schools after an out-of-hours GP in Victoria infirmary saw her, with her Ebola relapse, and said 'it is probably a wee cold' and did not think to notify Health Authority about a possible Ebola re-lapse.

I have zero confidence about people's intelligence and care for others (i.e. isolating properly and following rules)

But don't be unduly worried - for all we know, they could be living next door to you (carriers I mean) and noone would know.

I’m hoping we’ll get at least three out of this. I bet Michelle Mone is rubbing her hands in glee.

arrow park is not in liverpool you will be fine.

Just avoid the Mersey goldfish op - now to do with the virus just stay away from the water

Nowt - honestly how fat are my fingers

Busy converting bras into useless masks and making friends in high places