World Health Organization – which the US left under Trump – has been leading the response to the cruise ship outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed it is sending a team to Spain’s Canary Islands, where the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is expected to arrive on Sunday, and US passengers will be evacuated to an airbase in Nebraska. However, experts say the US is unprepared for such a disease threat.
The CDCs limited role in responding to the hantavirus outbreak is raising questions, including whether it now has a diminished role in responding to health scares. Most of the response has been led by the World Health Organization (WHO), of which the US is no longer a member.
The hantavirus outbreak was reported to the WHO on 2 May; a notice issued two days later updated to seven confirmed or suspected cases. Three people had died, one person was critically ill and three others had mild symptoms.
Former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X that she’d texted with alternative medicine medic Mary Talley Bowden about treatments for hantavirus and that Bowden had recommended the horse dewormer ivermectin.
Fuck. Here we go again.
Oh they never stopped with Ivermectin, still being spouted as a miracle cure. They even sell it on tiktok shop lol.
I know I’m supposed to stop wishing cancer on people but when Mary here gets cancer I am going to be a little satisfied.
They should send raccoon penis lover to double check
I shouldn’t have to live in a world where I immediately knew who you were talking about. Yet here we are.
RFK is such a freak he would’ve become a lolcow regardless, dude needs to be put into an assisted living facility given how a lot of it is from built up neurological damage and trauma.
Well yeah, compare this to ebola response if you want to see how clear the institutional rot is. That was also a pretty low risk threat in the US but hospitals were clearly indicated the plan for outbreaks and given training metrics and were designated as local response sites. CDC was on the ground and public health gears moved.
