An outbreak of the rare hantavirus infection on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean killed three people – including an elderly married couple – and sickened at least three others, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and South Africa’s health department said on Sunday. Hantavirus is normally transmitted by rats. Yikes.
The WHO said an investigation was under way but that at least one case of hantavirus had been confirmed. One of the patients was in intensive care in a South African hospital, the UN’s health agency said in a statement to the Associated Press, and the WHO was working with authorities to evacuate two others with symptoms from the ship.
The outbreak was reported on the MV Hondius, which was travelling between Argentina and Cape Verde. According to several online ship-tracking sites, the MV Hondius was just off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on Sunday night.
When you're on a cruise ship that doesn't stop in port overnight, like an Atlantic crossing, you're trapped on an incubator for four or five days. One lady sneezes at the buffet table and 60 people get sick. And then ya got the cruises with eight million kids running around like they have no parents. This is definitely not my idea of something to do. Juss' sayin'...
being on a ship is a lot like being in prison, but with a chance of drowning. you right , NO THANKS.
ReplyDeletenever went and have no wish to even look at one.
Really...after the covid scam you're going to believe the WHO?
ReplyDeleteThe high risk of contracting as infectious diesease highlights one more reason (of many) why I consider being on one of those cruise ship behemoths HELL ON EARTH.
ReplyDeletePaying to be trapped on one of those ugly un-nautical monstrosities in close confines with 4 or 5 thousand drunken strangers coughing and farting on each other does not appeal to me.
Do you know where most Hanta virus deaths may occur? On Indian Reservations in the US. We don't really know because the Reservations refuse to cooperate with various federal and state health organizations. It's very cyclical. Happens on the first dry year after two wet years, which makes sense as rodent populations explode during the second wet year and then go in search of food and water during the dry year and, well, there you go.
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