Three die on cruise ship from suspected hantavirus: WHO
Posted by KateMacDonaldArts@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 17 comments
A hard call to choose flair - cruise ship has ports of call in South Africa, is registered in the Middle East and has European tourists among the casualties. I can’t prep for every eventuality, but this one of the big reasons I avoid the cruise industry. I’m surprised other passengers aren’t deboarding and flying home from ports on their journey. There no way I’d remain on a ship with hantavirus.
WardenWolf@reddit
Hantavirus comes from rodent feces. Maybe don't take a rat-infested cruise.
Dork_wing_Duck@reddit
Someone posted this in the comment section so I'm placing it here. There's a hantavirus that can spread from human to human
-Avacyn@reddit
Which is funny, because the ship in question is a rather new (2019) luxury polar expedition cruise ship registered in the Netherlands.
Myanamink@reddit
Yeah Oceanwide Expeditions' ships are the absolute opposite of cheap 'rat-infested' mass cruise lines. I took one of their trips to Antarctica last year. Very expensive, but worth it to me because unlike with generic cruises, expedition ships let you hike, camp, mountaineer, kayak, etc. Oceanwide is also extremely careful with disease. On my first hike I lost my footing and managed to face-plant in penguin guano. I had to do full-body decontamination (all clothes and exposed body parts) before I could re-enter the ship. The accounts I've read suggest that the passengers were exposed in Argentina, before starting the cruise, and became sick afterwards.
KateMacDonaldArts@reddit (OP)
Every port including those nice clean ones in North America have rats by the way.
WardenWolf@reddit
Yes, but they're usually not so bad in passenger areas of the ship that multiple people get hantavirus. The ship had to be absolutely filthy for that.
dittybopper_05H@reddit
I don't think they caught it on the ship. Trust me, I've had hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, and there is about a 2 week incubation period.
This isn't a typical cruise ship. It's an "expedition" ship that transports a limited number of passengers (like 175 or so) to remote destinations in the South Atlantic and Antarctic oceans, and they go ashore in rubber dinghies with guides. It's not like the Love Boat pulling into Puerto Vallarta. They're going to places like the Falklands, South Georgia Islands, South Shetland Islands, Bouvet Island, the Antarctic Peninsula, Cape Verde Islands, Tristan de Cunha, and Saint Helena.
The ship is home ported in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
There are plenty of opportunities to catch hantavirus at some of those destinations, and of course at the embarkation port.
bikumz@reddit
Rats just be apart of the port life. Strat cats too. Shout out to the stray cats though they cool.
Salty-Passenger-4801@reddit
Ever been to NYC?
mycarisnotblue@reddit
'Three people have died on a cruise ship in the Atlantic, the WHO said Sunday, one a confirmed case of hantavirus.'
The headline says one thing and the article immediately says something else. Great.
OutlandishnessHour19@reddit
There's a hantavirus that can spread from human to human
helluvastorm@reddit
And it is in Argentina. The second death is now confirmed Hantavirus
fragrant-final-973@reddit
Oof… was waiting for that confirmation. Bad news.
KateMacDonaldArts@reddit (OP)
At least three people have died from an apparent hemorrhagic disease. I’m not sure what’s wrong with the headline from your perspective?
mycarisnotblue@reddit
It says 3 people have died, one is confirmed by laboratory to have been from hantavirus but not the others, even though they are pending. I just think we need to be very certain before we start spreading possible false news. The bbc is known for not always expressing things exactly like they are, for reasons only they know and the rest of us guess.
KateMacDonaldArts@reddit (OP)
I’m not trying to make anyone paranoid - but anyone with a cabin, camp, bug out or basement should remember to clean any rodent infestations careful for their own health
While person to person contagion is a possibility, it is just as likely that each dies from separate conditions or that passengers were in an area contaminated by rat feces.
dillstrombone@reddit
None of this post is from the BBC (though there is another post here that is) Did you mean AFP?