Here we go again. Hantavirus

I fond the most insufferable post s you find on this and other sites are the "here we go again" comments on every mention of any virus anywhere. Usually immediately followed by "plandemic" "jibby-jabs" and the like

Who needs the jab when you have ivermectin.

Depends on how you might define superspreader event. The point they were making, from what I understand, is with all the funding cuts we have seen like USAID, to ngos in regions like this etc and the UK has cut funding too .. Ir has done huge damage to our first line of defense. Where before this out break would have been acted on in 48 hours, now we are behind weeks. Its already spreading to neighbouring countries because no effective contact tracing in these weeks lost.

This guy in the vid is a virologist. His point is we have the WC coming up shortly and we really need to be on top of this before then. People are catching this new strain of ebola faster but no symptoms for a longer period but still spreading it in the meantime. Worry is, with such a big event like this and lots of close contact with guards down .. this ebola could spread at this event if people not found due to inadequate contact tracing caused by whats outlined above. Relatively, it could become a spreading event for this ebola.

People are catching this new strain of ebola faster but no symptoms for a longer period but still spreading it in the meantime.

Ebola is only spread when a person is showing symptoms. It isn't contagious during the incubation period and again, requires contact with infected bodily fluids, something that doesn't lend itself to spreading like wildfire. Unless this guy somehow knows something about this outbreak that no one else does, I'm gonna write it off as fearmongering nonsense. There's been loads of ebola outbreaks over the past several years and they all fizzled out.

Whatever about hantavirus .. Other than scaremongering which no doubt is happening .. I think most of it is FEAR ( even if irrational ), even from the likes of WHO. This fear is multiplied by those things I mention above. I dont think many of us realised how much work was being done and funded by the US and the USAID. Trump and co ( Doge ) cutting this completely would seem to have caused a massive amount of damage thats beginning to become apparent now with this new Ebola strain outbreak.

I was struck by that video above and many others I watched recently where USAID and then individual aid, cut by many countries, has decimated many NGO's also. These NGO's and USAID were always there on the ground ( taken for granted? ), they were the actual frontline. Maybe we did not think that one of there jobs was being the frontline for the world against outbreaks like this.

What sticks with me from watching these vids and news items is that this Ebola breakout would have been spotted within 48 hours if USAID etc were on the ground, but without them it was weeks before it filtered through this was happening. This in the world of viral infection and disease is a huge thing. TIME is so important. And what did not happen was the contact tracing, again very important as we all know.

Where Ebola is concerned Vs other outbreaks is for one reason or another more frightening. Maybe its the movies that appeared - OUTBREAK ( 1995 ), CONTAGION ( 2002 ) - which imprinted on peoples minds, frightened the hell out of people, both about Ebola. And now we have an outbreak which is different. Its a new strain with different "features". We dont have the on the ground agencies that we did have - which is huge, I think. We currently dont have a vaccine for this current variant. This outbreak was in the wild alot longer than others before becoming evident to the world.

It's not a new strain. It was first identified almost 20 years ago and actually has a lower case fatality rate than other strains

It's not a new variant either. It's a known strain of ebola that was first was identified in 2007 in Uganda, thats where the name comes from. All this information is readily available by a cursory Google search.

I've just glanced at DW, their entire focus in relation to Ebola is in relation to Africa. Not seeing anything inappropriate or extreme about the reporting.

If the Hanta outbreak had occurred on a merchant ship staffed by local seamen we would never even of heard of it. Rich White people on a cruise get sick = clicks!

I didn’t say the articles were extreme; moreso the fact they have two dedicated sections on the homepage, one for the Iran War and one for Ebola (which was Hantavirus last week) is definitely over the top.

When Zika virus was a thing, there was lots of coverage of it and the same happened for previous Ebola outbreaks. Their coverage of it seems entirely reasonable. Similarly the majority of the coverage on hantavirus were not selling it as a major global catastrophe.

I'd also say that we're seeing the consequences of USAID cuts that are resulting in outbreaks being worse than they should be, that IMHO is a major news story that both DW and the NYT have picked up on.

Who is paying them to publish a pretty factual article about the flight being diverted to Canada?