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«Ich verstehe nicht, warum wir so zurückhaltend sind, den Inhalationsweg anzuerkennen, wenn wir über die Übertragung von Mensch zu Mensch sprechen […]. Die Übertragung über die Luft ist in diesen Fällen sicherlich die einfachste Erklärung […].»
#hantavirus #andesvirus #andenvirus #aerosole #aerosols #airborne
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On the Andes Virus outbreak, here's what seems to be known at this point:
There is an "International Hantavirus Society" that studies hantaviruses. The variant we are concerned with is called the "Andes" variant, and unlike other hantaviruses, this one can spread person-to-person.
Before this variant, a person could only get sick by throwing into the air the dust from rodent poop - by sweeping up a dusty barn with a broom, for instance, or cleaning a basement, or disturbing any dark corner where mouse or rat poop accumulated - and in the process inhaling virus particles thrown into the air and become airborne, able to enter the nasal passage and lungs. Or by touching dirty cleaning equipment, rags, or floors, getting the virus on the hands or face, or tracking it into the house on shoes, etc.
This Andes variant is different. You catch this variant from a person. It is airborne, aerosolized - it hangs and floats through the air like measles, chickenpox, flu, or covid. And you catch it the same way you catch a cold, or flu, or covid: an infected person exhales, and you then inhale their infected air.
Most of what's known about the Andes virus is from a 2018 outbreak in Patagonia (hence the name "Andes") which led to 34 cases and 11 deaths. The International Hantavirus Society issued an important statement on May 8th, referencing that outbreak, making these points:
• The precise timing of infectiousness remains incompletely defined.
• Infected persons may be infectious/contagious before symptoms develop.
• The 2018 outbreak had an R0 of 2.1 before strict quarantine measures were enforced (this is similar to Ebola. Measles, in contrast, has an R0 of 12-18, smallpox and polio R0 of 5-7)
• Multiple person-to-person transmissions occurred without close contact
• "On the basis of both the epidemiologic and genomic investigations of person-to-person transmission events, it appears that inhalation of aerosolized virions appear to have been the routes of infection."
• Symptoms can appear up to eight weeks after exposure to an infectious person.
• Initial symptoms are often mild and flu-like in the early stage. An infected person is *most* infectious during this early stage.
• Following the "Superspreader Study" (the study of the 2018 outbreak) the UK classified the Andes Virus as an "Airborne High Consequence Infectious Disease" (HCID).
• Current hantavirus tests can detect the viral RNA in a *symptomatic patient only,* beginning on the first day of symptoms. Tests will not detect the infection before symptoms appear, meaning that a person infected with hantavirus will test negative for the entire duration of the incubation period - possibly eight weeks - until symptom onset. This is important. The International Hantavirus Society emphasized: “A negative PCR result early after exposure should therefore NOT be interpreted as excluding later infection.”It looks like 176 people were on board the ship, including passengers and crew, from 29 countries. Thirty people disembarked in St. Helena on 24 April, when the ship stopped to transport to hospital the sickened wife of her husband who had died 13 days earlier. Two days later this woman died. She was symptomatic and most certainly infectious for several days at least, before leaving the ship. It is unknown who may have been infected by her, and may now be incubating the virus. The wave of cases that have so far emerged are likely from contact with her husband who died on 11 April. Given the incubation period is typically 2-8 weeks, we probably haven’t even seen the start of cases from those who came into contact with his wife. Symptoms may not emerge until mid-June.
The 146 people who remained on the ship have since returned to their home countries. Once home they will be subject to their own country's protocols.
#AndesVirus #Hantavirus #Pandemia
"We're now at 10 confirmed cased from the ship, which aligns with the prior outbreak dynamics: one person infecting many, no close contact required."
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/hantavirus-outbreak-cruise-ship/687140/Links to sources and more:
https://zenodo.org/records/20075274
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON599
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/08/health/hantavirus-by-the-numbers
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/andes-hantavirus-epidemiology-outbreaks-and-guidance
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy592qeq071t
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/23-January-2019-hantavirus-argentina-en
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00128-7/abstract
how it's going (potentially infected travelers working to spread it worldwide)
https://metro.co.uk/2026/05/13/hantavirus-brit-found-italian-bar-rather-quarantining-28358624/
https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/a-second-woman-jet-setted-around
blog roundups
https://www.patreon.com/posts/hantavirus-covid-158228501
https://tactnowinfo.substack.com/p/andes-hanta-virus-alert-the-global
https://lilscience.substack.com/p/the-next-two-weeks-are-critical-global
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Understanding the Hantavirus Outbreak on a Cruise Ship
📰 Original title: All Your Hantavirus Questions, Answered by an Infectious Disease Expert
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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Virologe Florian Krammer zum #Hantavirus #Andesvirus in einer aktuellen Podcast-Episode
„Ich glaube es ist momentan auch nicht außer Kontrolle und ich glaube nicht, dass das zum größeren globalen Problem wird.“
Sein Forschungsantrag zum Hantavirus wurde von der EU im Januar abgelehnt ……
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HANTAVIRUS AND ANDES VIRUS 101
As a trained medical professional, I feel the need to inform and raise awareness of the latest MV Hondius (cruise ship) hantavirus outbreak in early May 2026.
Here is a quick rundown of facts about hantavirus in general...
View full note: https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0513-41843
#hantavirus #hantavirusOutbreak #AndesVirus #ANDV #Health #outbreak #virusOutbreak #publicHealth #science #InfectiousDisease #epidemiology #rodents #cruise #cruiseShip
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#Hantavirus #Andesvirus
Die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines größeren Ausbruchs ist und bleibt sehr gering. Frühere Ausbrüche in Argentinien wurden sehr detailliert aufgearbeitet und zeigen, man steckt sich wirklich nicht leicht an. Dazu braucht es schon Pech und sehr spezielle Umstände. Wie z.B. auf einem Schiff.Die aktuelle Virusvariante wurde inzw. in der Schweiz vollständig sequenziert und unterscheidet sich nur marginal von den gut untersuchten früheren Varianten. Das Virus hat nicht gelernt, uns leichter anzustecken.
ABER: Der laxe Umgang in einigen Ländern mit Verdachtspersonen bei einem Virus, an dem bis zu 40% der Infizierten sterben, ist unpackbar. Afrika kriegt das bei Ebola trotz viel geringerer Mittel besser hin.
Wenn wirklich wieder ein Virus mit pandemischen Potenzial kommen sollte, geht das übel aus.
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Oh, f… 🤬 «He was briefly on the same plane as a woman who later died from the virus. The woman was disembarked from the KLM flight before it took off from Johannesburg.» www.reuters.com/business/hea... #hantavirus #andesvirus
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Kommentar zum Hantavirus - Zeit für Wachsamkeit statt für Panik
Hantaviren sind bekannt, auch die Andes-Variante. Dass hier die nächste Pandemie beginnt, ist unwahrscheinlich. Dennoch muss Wissenschaft wachsam sein.#Hantavirus #Hantavirus-Ausbruch #Pandemie #Quarantäne #Andes-Virus
Kommentar zum Hantavirus: Wachsamkeit statt Panik ist das Gebot -
Was macht Direktorin des Bundesamt für #Gesundheit in der Schweiz eigentlich beruflich? 🤦🏻♂️
«Es geht ein paar Tage, bis man weiss, ob jemand krank ist oder nicht – aufgrund der Tatsache, dass sich bislang niemand mehr gemeldet hat, sind wir zuversichtlich.»
Die typische Inkubationszeit ist Wochen und nicht Tage.
Wieso weiss man das beim #BAG nicht?