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'The Hantas Are Coming! The Hantas Are Coming!' – HotAir

I am about at the end of my rope with this already.

It has me wondering if the dark powers that be are really so worried about Trump getting everything turned around in time for the midterms or what, that they’ve suddenly and ghoulishly latched onto Plague Ship, Part Deux.





Now, they are trying to approach the subject with a certain amount of coy dissembling.

NOW, WE KNOW THERE’S NORMALLY NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT BECAUSE THIS IS SO RARE BUT…

Yeah, it’s rare. The only time I have ever heard of any hanta virus cases were stoners sitting in a hot, dusty, enclosed Navajo hogan smoking psychedlic shrooms and performing weird sexual rituals some doper guru from Encino had cooked up so they could reach their inner Nirvana.

Or the once-in-a-while tragic case, like Gene Hackman’s wife.

It’s definitely a risk and always has been with the wee little rodents who poop their way in and out of desert Southwest dwellings. 

Not so much in other places the rest of us go, which, I am pretty sure, does include a rat-infested dump in the Andes or remote villages in Northern Patagonia.

This, however, is a cautionary tale if one so inclined, as our Southwest Hanta strain does not transit human to human, where the Andes strain does. 

Poor Patient Zero from Plague Ship One (aka MV Hondius), a Dutch ornithologist, had been on an extended birdwatching trip through the Andes with his wife.

The four-month road trip through Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina took them through territory inhabited by the carrier of this particular strain of the Hanta virus, the long-tailed Colilargo rat. It’s the only rodent in the world that carries this strain of Hanta virus.





So when Mr Schilperoord became ill on the vessel and was diagnosed, along with his wife, who also became ill, they looked back at his route and initially settled on a garbage dump infested with rats that the two had spent time at.

Tragically, they both died from contracting the virus.

But medical detective work is always so fascinating, and it turns out that the answer was too easy. The rats there are not the correct rats for this virus, so where had they contracted the disease?

 Much earlier in their trip they had been in Northern Patagonia, an area filled with the Colilargo rats which was having a smallish Hanta virus outbreak of its own at the time.

Voila. At least one answer.

Meanwhile, onboard the ship, there was only one doctor, who soon became ill himself, and one of the passengers, a doctor, stepped forward to take care of the other passengers

Obviously, as none had any idea what the circumstances were or how contagious the virus was, the ship was unwelcome at any ports they’d tried to pull into.

One of the passengers who was ill was British and had gotten off on the remote island of Tristan da Cunha, which is part of the Ascension and St Helena chain.





The British sent paratroopers in with supplies and doctors.

I read that forty or so people had disembarked at St Helena before the virus was identified, and went on to Johannesburg by air. The end of their segment of the cruise, probably. They are tracing tickets and flights to find them.

A couple of those were jet-setting Americans, and they’ve found two of them.

One was in the Pitcairns. She’ll be staying for a while after traveling without alerting authorities she had been on the MV Hondius.

The other is a woman from New York.





…It’s unclear if health authorities in the US are aware of the NYC resident’s time on the ship or travels.

Many of the American passengers who disembarked at St Helena have either contacted their local health departments or those departments are actively looking for them.

More than two dozen passengers potentially exposed to hantavirus aboard a cruise ship disembarked almost 2 weeks ago, several sources confirmed to MedPage Today, and Americans who were among them are now back on U.S. soil.

A total of 30 passengers disembarked the MV Hondius at St. Helena on April 24, several sources confirmed to MedPage Today.

There are about seven Americans who disembarked at that time and have since returned to the U.S., and states have been working to track them down for testing and monitoring, according to sources with close knowledge of the situation.

They say the passengers live in several states, including Arizona, California, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia.

A spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health told MedPage Today that it was “notified by the CDC of California residents that were onboard the cruise ship that had passengers infected with hantavirus.”

The other passengers stranded on board were ferried off in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, and airlifted back to their home nations. The MV Hondius, with thirty crew members and the body of one passenger still onboard, will be headed to the Netherlands for decontamination when they finally dock.





All the Americans are at a CDC facility on an Air Force base in Nebraska, and so far, are doing well. I think there’s been one positive test. The problem with this virus is that it takes up to 42 days to develop, so it could be a long stretch sitting in the cornfields. But they’re in good hands.

And, yeah, that sucks. But as even the WHO’s creepy Dr. Tedros says, being quarantined on the ship would have been unimaginably cruel.

There’s also been some really good news about the sequencing of the virus’s DNA, as cases started to blossom between folks who weren’t intimately connected, but were trapped on a cruise ship or in a airplane together – close enough quarters with tighter shared spaces than, say, passing in a grocery store or on the sidewalk.

The DNA hasn’t mutated a lick. It’s the same strain – no weird virus voodoo going on.

One poop, one human, and it was off to the races, but, thankfully, that’s it.

The European Union’s health agency ECDC said Wednesday there was nothing to suggest that the Andes strain of hantavirus had mutated following a deadly outbreak of the illness on a cruise ship.

The deaths of three passengers from a rare hantavirus outbreak on a cruise from Argentina to Cape Verde has sparked international alarm.

Seven other passengers are confirmed to have the virus, including a French woman in a critical condition, while an eighth case is considered “probable,” according to an AFP tally.

All of the passengers have been evacuated and are now in quarantine.

“Preliminary investigations based on the whole genome sequencing that is available to us suggest that there are no indications that this virus is acting any differently from the known virus circulating in some regions of the world,” Andreas Hoefer, of the Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, told journalists.

“All sequences obtained to date are virtually identical, which means that there is likely only a single transmission event from an infected animal to a human,” added Hoefer, a microbiologist and molecular epidemiologist.





But the COVID ghouls are smacking their lips, feeding the fear frenzy.

And ‘getting ready’ – just in case.

The open-air contagion ballet repeats itself anew.

IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE TO HAVE A FIVE-ALARM FIRE BELL

So many people will be disappointed to hear that.

So disappointed.

But I do like that they’re not out with flames on their heads and are upfront about what this is.

Besides…

…there’s only so much anyone can do to help people keep themselves safe, if you get my drift.







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