Judging by how we did with the last pandemic ... I guess we should enjoy whatever we've got now because all of it is going to get screwed up by the dumbest people on the planet

Thank God we have a capable politician heading up Health and Human Services. And a reasonable President.

Oh, wait.

So when is the next Animal Crossing coming out? That's how we'll know.

Guess the antivaxxers better organise some rat feces parties to make sure their immune systems are working as nature intended. Soon, Alex Jones will be selling Ratvermectin: "The disease and the cure in one pleasant-tasting paste!"

We just sent a boatload of sample cases all over the world so countries can practice for the outbreak...

Send in RFK protected by his healthy living and without a mask.

On the plus side, probably no better time to buy cruise tickets!

Whoa, whoa, slow down. I ain't ready for COVID 2 yet!

At the moment, there is no sign that we are seeing the start of a larger outbreak

I'd fucking hope so...

If we see signs of a larger outbteak, it's already too late. This has 40% mortality rate under the best conditions when dealing with isolated cases, and an R factor over two (1 is where its infectious enough to cause wifescale problems)

This is like Y2k all over again. We need to take it seriously and if we do a bunch of idiots will think that means we didn't need to.

But if we let the idiots win and don't take it seriously, then we're all fucked

I'll never understand why the idiots get so fucking triggered that someone else is worried about something and trying to protect them.

If people don't think this is a big deal and there's no reason for anyone to worry, then they can just ignore the entire thing on a personal level.

Instead they feel insulted if anyone disagrees with them, because that's what idiots do.

They don't care about if they're right, they just get mad if anyone disagrees with them about anything.

seems the most lethal viruses are carried by rodents, and bats. rodents have hantaviruses, poxviruses likely originated from them before becoming smallpox. and bats with ebola,rabies.

Remember how they had that meeting a while ago? Just like with covid? Yeah, stock up long term food just in case

People contract it by breathing in aerosolized fresh rodent feces and urine. It's rare to begin with. This is very different from Covid in the way it spreads. I agree it's good to be prepared with ways to limit its mortality rate in affected individuals, but these news articles are whipping up hysteria in a population that just survived a world pandemic of something that was highly communicable. Hantavirus is not.

why dfq is always the guardian with the fearmongering? I can't take these guys seriously because every second article is something like this from some different threat. Also don't trust them since they fired Glenn Greenwald.

Who, who, who!

France’s health minister, Stéphanie Rist, said on Tuesday that while it wasn’t currently clear whether the hantavirus strain involved in the outbreak may have mutated, officials were “rather reassured”.

Rist told the National Assembly: “There are things … we do not know about this virus. We do not yet have the complete sequencing of the virus, which allows us to say with certainty today, even if we are rather reassured to date … that this virus has not yet mutated.”

The Trump administration has provided all front line responder organizations with the link to relevant training materials for hemorrhagic fevers.

Inside is a single link to a 123movies mirror for the movie Outbreak.

I got to say, I'm feeling pretty good about this.

If we avoid a bigger outbreak of this it will be luck not because we actually did this right. I am not convinced we should have been taking these exposed people and spreading across the globe and certainly not with very different procedures, only some countries are actually quarantining those who have been exposed. It could still be in the community from one of the people exposed on the plane. Given how slowly this virus progresses it could smoulder for quite a while before we have an epidemic that we recognise.

I really wish the WHO would get over its aversion to saying viral spread is airborne, they still haven't admitted Covid is airborne despite the scientists proving it is and they have called Hantavirus "close contact", which isn't actually a transmission mechanism its either droplet or aerosol and given the exposures where its spread its airborne.

We couldn't handle 14 days in america, but 42 days?? I'm so glad transmission is so infrequent

notThisShitAgain.exe