Isn’t this just the mouse shit virus? It’s been around forever, if you have a house with mice you have a risk of getting it. The fear is that it’s deadly, not that it spreads rapidly.
Unless this is somehow a new strain, all this story has told me is the company is a running a naaaasty effing ship for 3 ppl to have gotten sick. Will be actively avoiding
This is the Andes strain which can pass from person to person.
Palacios said the window for transmission of the Andes virus appears to be short, about a day. People are at their peak of infectiousness on the day they develop a fever.
But the study also found that the virus could be passed relatively easily during this window, after periods of only brief proximity to someone else.
My Mom’s a pediatric oncology nurse and she said basically the same thing about COVID. “What’s the big deal, it’s been around forever.” Then bam the world shutdown.
Dude, I’m sorry; it’s not the same thing. Virologists were freaking the fuck out about COVID-19. Your mom being qualified to nurse children with cancer does not qualify her literally at all to give a prediction on the virology of an emergent outbreak. You may as well have said she was a vet tech.
Totally valid. I guess it’s a balance between panicking too early (cruise ships are literally just big petrie dishes), and identifying a valid pandemic threat. Either way, for the moment I’m more worried about the mice in my house
Isn’t this just the mouse shit virus? It’s been around forever, if you have a house with mice you have a risk of getting it. The fear is that it’s deadly, not that it spreads rapidly.
Unless this is somehow a new strain, all this story has told me is the company is a running a naaaasty effing ship for 3 ppl to have gotten sick. Will be actively avoiding
This is the Andes strain which can pass from person to person.
Awesome.
A flight attendant is now also suspected to be infected, so it could well be a strain with some human to human transmission.
That’s more disconcerting to me than the ship. Thanks for sharing
My Mom’s a pediatric oncology nurse and she said basically the same thing about COVID. “What’s the big deal, it’s been around forever.” Then bam the world shutdown.
Dude, I’m sorry; it’s not the same thing. Virologists were freaking the fuck out about COVID-19. Your mom being qualified to nurse children with cancer does not qualify her literally at all to give a prediction on the virology of an emergent outbreak. You may as well have said she was a vet tech.
Some of the most medically uninformed people I have ever known have been nurses. They somehow all always want antibiotics to treat a (viral) cold.
Yeah, yeah, “all” is an exaggeration, but I don’t trust a nurse’s medical knowledge any more than I do that of any other random person.
Thanks for telling me the point I made…
Totally valid. I guess it’s a balance between panicking too early (cruise ships are literally just big petrie dishes), and identifying a valid pandemic threat. Either way, for the moment I’m more worried about the mice in my house
I guess we’re gonna all find out