Title. Apparently there is a cruise ship quarantined right now because of this. And a guy at work was telling me some of the staff escaped? Not sure what exactly is going on but is it cause for concern?

  • Windex007@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Not at all. Not even a little bit.

    Human-to-human transmission is extremely rare.

    You get it from mouse shit. It’s significantly more likely that the people who got it were all exposed to the same mouse shit than it is that they gave it to each other.

    You should be way more worried about the mice on that ship coming off and shitting.

    Edit: This strain is a little contagious. Still shouldn’t be concerned.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      Starting this off with: I am not an epidemiologist and most of the epidemiologist I’m seeing online aren’t yet too concerned

      That being said, they have not found any rodents on the ship, though that does not mean they didn’t just miss them in their search. The version on the ship has been confirmed to be the Andes Virus (ANDV) which is human-to-human transmissible in a way that most hantavirus are not

      It’s hard to say exactly how the virus will behave outside of a cruise ship (which are known for spreading diseases more than other locations), but we can potentially look at a past outbreak in 2018 in a small town for an idea

      In this work, we described the isolation of the strain responsible for the largest ANDV PTP transmission outbreak, which occurred in the small town of Epuyén and began on November 2, 2018. This strain, ARG-Epuyén, exhibited a high capacity for PTP transmission, necessitating the implementation of quarantine measures to curtail further spread [8]. The median reproductive number (the mean number of secondary cases caused by an infected person) was 2.12 before control measures were implemented and subsequently dropped to below 1.0 by late January

      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12201636/