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Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser (www.cnn.com)

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[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If this was a new variant that is exactly what they would tell us though, and it is spreading more than this Andes variant is supposed to.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 24 minutes ago)

Evidence from previous outbreaks, including the Epuyén cluster in Argentina, in which three patients accounted for 21 (64%) of 33 secondary infections, indicates that person-to-person transmission of Andes virus infection can occur through close contact.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00934-7/fulltext?rss=yes

And that was on land. There's no precedent for a cruise ship, a hilariously infectious environment. Fuck cruise ships forever, I wish we could just ban them.