2026-05-05 17:35 UTC
@kakape The Wikipedia description is terrifying: "In humans, infection leads to HPS, an illness characterized by an early phase of mild and moderate symptoms such as fever, headache, and fatigue, followed by sudden respiratory failure. The case fatality rate from infection is high, at about 40%."
Hopefully the difficulty of human to human transmission means it's not something to worry about?
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@NilaJones@zeroes.ca 2026-05-05 18:01
@FediThing @kakape That's 40% of people -who are tested for hantavirus- and return positive There may be many thousands of people with milder symptoms, who are never tested (And there are certainly people who die from it without their docs thinking to test, as almost happened with the first case in this story) New viruses often seem to have awful fatality rates because most cases are never tested. Covid, for example, and bird flu Maybe they really are as fatal as they look, maybe not I wonder if everyone on that ship is positive. But does the world have enough reagents to test them all?