Authorities around the world are racing to trace dozens of passengers who disembarked from the cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak before isolation measures were implemented.
It emerged for the first time on Thursday that at least 29 passengers of 12 nationalities left the MV Hondius on 24 April after the first fatality, prompting a scramble to identify and track their movements since then.
However, the World Health Organization ruled out any Covid-scale crisis. “This is not the start of an epidemic. This is not the start of a pandemic. This is not Covid,” Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, the agency’s director for epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention, told reporters.
Who has ‘plague ship’ on their doomsday bingo card?
This seems like such a media hype train on 2026’s most nothing burger.
There’s three possible causes here…
- Start of an outbreak
- Mickey Mouse sex cult
- Hantavirus ends in virus like coronavirus and coronavirus bad
Judging by how the virus actually works, I wish it was 2, but unfortunately it’s more likely to be 3. It ain’t 1; not so long as 2 isn’t happening.
What?!?
Humans can contract it from other humans, but super rarely. Its main way of infecting humans is exposure to mouse scat and piss.
Source: A minute of reading up or making it past paragraph 2 of any article about it. Keep your environment free of mouse body fluids.
Hip Hop style beat @ 100 Bpm in Dmin
🎶It came first From eating a bat & Now this, This is where we at,
A cruise ship how crayyyzeee? A controlled environment, A coinkydinky?
I must say say Be it Cray Cray
Cuz there’s no way we doin’ this again Because a mf’er snuck a kitty in they cruise cabin
I hope it ain’t real Just a fever dream
But unfortunately I know just ain’t me
Think an outbreak, Just another distraction? Another outbreak another distraction🎶
I know, me too, But hear my thoughts aloud (& in your own voice), I kiiiinda get it. Not really but for an esoteric existential experience, I’d say it’s a good one. 👍
