Title. Apparently there is a cruise ship quarantined right now because of this. And a guy at work was telling me some of the staff escaped? Not sure what exactly is going on but is it cause for concern?
Title. Apparently there is a cruise ship quarantined right now because of this. And a guy at work was telling me some of the staff escaped? Not sure what exactly is going on but is it cause for concern?
That sounds like an unfortunate lack of perspective and information on your part, to me. While that may sound rude, it’s actually not a bad thing, so long as it’s not due to being willfully ignorant.
Kind of taking the “Explain like I’m five” approach to comparing hantavirus and COVID: It’s like being afraid of catching rabies from sparrows because you’re aware that bats can carry rabies. After all, they’re both flying creatures that can live in close proximity to people.
At the end of the day, COVID-19 was a novel pathogen, not well-understood in the early days, and something of a perfect storm of conditions and characteristics that allowed it to blow up in to a global pandemic. This strain of hantavirus is the sparrow to the covid bat. Superficial similarities (they’re both viral diseases), but very different things in all the ways that count.
Im not saying that hantavirus is the next COVID. I just was saying that I wouldnt dismiss it solely because Im worried about the media hyping things up, because that can apply to anything.
That’s good to know