A 70-year-old Dutch man died on board April 11, and his 69-year-old wife died later in South Africa after leaving the ship, officials said. Her blood later tested positive for the virus, South Africa’s health minister said.
The WHO has also begun tracking down people who shared a flight with the 69-year-old passenger. The Dutch woman got off the boat with “gastrointestinal symptoms” on April 24 and died two days later, after her condition “deteriorated during a flight to Johannesburg,” the WHO said. “Contact tracing for passengers on the flight has been initiated,” it added.
Oh look, and this fucking 69 year old went on a commercial flight before dropping dead. Wonder how many people got infected from that. This virus has a 40% mortality rate. Incubation time is 2-8 weeks. Human to human transmission.
Human to human transmission is still considered quite rare tho, no? Hopefully it didn’t mutate to be more contagious.
The flip side of that coin is if there were some sort of pandemic going around making everyone more vulnerable.
One of my relatives was recently complaining that when they were raising kids they weren’t regularly sick all the time like my siblings kids. Had to explain that a huge chunk of the population now has organ damage and compromised immune systems that makes infections from other diseases much more common.