The strain from the cruise ship is the Andes strain.
Avoiding rodents isn’t the answer to this one (still avoid them, that’s just not quite the correct answer here).
The risk to the average person is low for other reasons.
One difference is in the very fact that we can name the virus: we know more about how it spreads and the symptoms to look for. It’s not an unknown virus, unlike in 2020 when we were dealing with something we had never seen in humans before.
If someone does start to show symptoms it will be tested for earlier during diagnosis than it otherwise might be since hantavirus is in the news. Earlier detection will reduce spread (if we even reach that point, many of the passengers are in quarantine).
The other passengers being in quarantine is one of the biggest things lowering the risk.
The strain from the cruise ship is the Andes strain.
Avoiding rodents isn’t the answer to this one (still avoid them, that’s just not quite the correct answer here).
The risk to the average person is low for other reasons.
One difference is in the very fact that we can name the virus: we know more about how it spreads and the symptoms to look for. It’s not an unknown virus, unlike in 2020 when we were dealing with something we had never seen in humans before.
If someone does start to show symptoms it will be tested for earlier during diagnosis than it otherwise might be since hantavirus is in the news. Earlier detection will reduce spread (if we even reach that point, many of the passengers are in quarantine).
The other passengers being in quarantine is one of the biggest things lowering the risk.