2026-05-05 17:15 UTC
It's worth thinking about what that means in terms of coordination and logistics. Tracing contacts of people across different continents, managing the evacuation of patients from the ship or deciding where it can dock etc...
It's almost like the world needs a world health organization... 🤓
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@kakape@mas.to 2026-05-05 17:16
And an outbreak could also be missed because of the fragmentation. In this case: The first patient died on the ship on April 11, and his wife disembarked with the body on the island of Saint Helena to return to the Netherlands. She only made it til South Africa and died there.
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@HolgerSchurig@social.tchncs.de 2026-05-05 18:02
@kakape "Tracing contacts of people" .. are you sure that this is happening? I just read the german wikipedia page on "Hanta-Virus" and there it says the Human-to-Human transfer is unlikely. It's actually so unlikely that one one human-to-human transfer of the disease was ever documented! South-Africa, 1996. Do officials really react under such circumstances?