2026-05-05 17:16 UTC
2) While you may think: A cruise ship. Again! Of course!
This outbreak is really unusual in that hantaviruses generally do not transmit from human to human and an outbreak has never been reported on a ship. That's why the big question here is still: Was there human-to-human transmission?
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@kakape@mas.to 2026-05-05 17:16
Researchers have only documented human-to-human spread for one hantavirus: Andes virus. The assumption has been that that is likely the culprit here, but we're waiting for confirmation from viral sequencing being done in South Africa (though I've heard from reliable sources it is indeed Andes virus)