Here we go again. Hantavirus

This is not going to be a pandemic if that’s the angle here. At worst we may end up with warnings and with a chance of minor restrictions but the R0 (as we should be aware of at this stage) isn’t anywhere near where it needs to be to cause huge problems.

Obviously this is a lethal virus if contracted but doesn’t have the properties to be a repeat of Covid.

Tony Hoolohan isn't in the Department of Health anymore so at least needless lockdowns won't be an issue

Between 10,000 to 100,000 cases a year. We'll be grand.

Population of the world is approx 7BN. At the mo we have a boat with 130 people or so out at sea and the situation being well managed, not all infected, if any right now. Incubation period is 6 weeks, so if they are qurantined properly for that time in the Canaries, all should be OK. They are tracking down the people who left the boat, got on flights over last few weeks. This will get sorted.

As was mentioned - Between 10,000 to 100,000 hantavirus infections worldwide are thought to occur each year, most of them in Asia and Europe.

So with respect to your "Here we go again" Title - thats like every other headline flooding social media, written to imply something - perhaps another pandemic like Coronavirus event - IT IS NOT and will not be another pandemic.

"People can become infected if they breathe in virus particles from rodent urine, droppings or saliva, usually when contaminated dust is stirred up in enclosed spaces"

The concern with this one is its the ANDES variant which can be spread human to human.

Hantavirus fatality rate is far far higher than Coronavirus:

• Coronavirus is around 3.4%
• The case fatality rate for hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is approximately 40% among those who develop severe disease.

With such a high case fatality rate - this is why haemoragic viruses ( like hantavirus and ebola ) dont spread too far too fast. They kill the host too quickly before they can spread it too far.

To an extent as mentioned, a non story only being blown up by the media using headlines crafted to cause hysteria to gain there own clicks. Give this a week or two and it will be chip paper .. my 2 cents!

Got my ivermectin.

Wearing **** masks while alone in the car and stopping children from playing in parks worked last time, I'm sure it will work again.

Flatten the curve!

FFS. This wouldn't even make the news if it wasn't for covid. I'm looking forward to my €350 a week though when they shut the place down.

Won’t someone please think of the pearl clutchers and lockdown lovers.

Incidentally, what are the odds that the same week we have a story about a pandemic treaty agreement deadline being missed there might be the start of a new pandemic! What are the odds?!

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/05/talks-stall-on-who-pandemic-treaty-global-response-disease-outbreaks

As was mentioned - Between 10,000 to 100,000 hantavirus infections worldwide are thought to occur each year, most of them in Asia and Europe.

Just for clarity that is all strains, which there is about 30.

This particular strain is the only one known to transmit human to human.

And there has been a very small number of human to human cases recorded throughout history.

There has been 8 already from this boat with 3 deaths.

Whilst it's certainly not Covid, it also isn't a non story as cases and deaths will probably rise.

Not very likely at all.

What is most likely is that certain parties aiming to put pressure on finalizing the pandemic agreement have launched a co-ordinated media campaign, using hantavirus as the reason to get it going. That’s all.

"Just for clarity that is all strains, which there is about 30. This particular strain is the only one known to transmit human to human."

Yip - mentioned that. But I also mentioned - yes, morbidly - the fatality % is very high with Hantavirus so it kills the host too quickly which ( vs covid ) does make it less efficient to spread as viruses go. i also hear it takes relatively long exposure to the infected person before another is infected, again, unlike covid?

I think its a lived ( recent ) memory thing and hearing word VIRUS is as deep as most go, then panic. Also caused by the usual socail media and dodgy MSM spreading hysteria about this event

i also hear it takes relatively long exposure to the infected person before another is infected, again, unlike covid?

They don't actually know.

The one robust case study they have would suggest it can be contracted in minimum time.

It's one of the reasons there will be so much attention on this outbreak.

They will want to learn all they can.