• spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    Isn’t this just the mouse shit virus? It’s been around forever, if you have a house with mice you have a risk of getting it. The fear is that it’s deadly, not that it spreads rapidly.

    Unless this is somehow a new strain, all this story has told me is the company is a running a naaaasty effing ship for 3 ppl to have gotten sick. Will be actively avoiding

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      48 minutes ago

      This is the Andes strain which can pass from person to person.

      Palacios said the window for transmission of the Andes virus appears to be short, about a day. People are at their peak of infectiousness on the day they develop a fever.

      But the study also found that the virus could be passed relatively easily during this window, after periods of only brief proximity to someone else.

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      5 hours ago

      A flight attendant is now also suspected to be infected, so it could well be a strain with some human to human transmission.

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      5 hours ago

      My Mom’s a pediatric oncology nurse and she said basically the same thing about COVID. “What’s the big deal, it’s been around forever.” Then bam the world shutdown.

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        3 hours ago

        Totally valid. I guess it’s a balance between panicking too early (cruise ships are literally just big petrie dishes), and identifying a valid pandemic threat. Either way, for the moment I’m more worried about the mice in my house