One U.S. passenger tests positive for Andes hantavirus, another has mild symptoms

Ryan Brooks69

Heres a source if anyone is looking for one: www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Helen Kennedy63

Does this mean it’s passing between people or are there infected rodents on that ship?

MaggieFlynn53

Mildly symptomatic is when they are transmitting the disease. They should be in quarantine.

Jeff Heisler52

As they distributed them around the country. We live in the stupidest time.

The Putting Waffle42

Ah. Just in time for the world cup...

Missy Hubbard39

One, now infected, passenger left earlier on the cruise & is in my area in VA. Why have they not been quarantined? What about the people who were on that public flight home? Is our government following up on those who were in contact with this person??? 😡

Brian30

And we got rfk jr what could possibly go wrong 🤨

Mary.Mary Quite Contrary27

Is mildly positive like a little bit pregnant?

Marko Silberhand23

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shinxter.bsky.social20

I always worried about the US passengers the most, as it's the country least likely to enforce isolation or anything like that.

David Breece20

There's a dashboard for those keeping score at home. www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboa...

DogLove318

Pay attention to what the WHO is saying. The CDC has been gutted and RFK Jr. is in charge so basically, we are on our own.

Sweetiesue1111 17

Also... I think it is safe to say that the vast majority are probably infected. www.bbc.com/news/article...

B Bryant16

If the new ballroom was in place they could be quarantined there.

Lianne12

In the before times, the press secretary might call a special briefing to the people … but here we are.

lilhummingbird007.bsky.social10

This feels like the start of 2020 all over again. I want off this hellacious ride. Fuck, I didn’t want on it to begin with.

blueinmo1957.bsky.social10

Symptoms always start out mild...if this shit turns into a full blown pandemic again, maybe it's time to get rid of these damn giant ass cruise ships!

khwalz10

How were they not quarantined and why were they allowed to travel so quickly.

Jayne9

Such BS ….There is no such thing as “Mildly Positive “ Unbelievable 🤬

OG SKATER8

Don’t worry folks, a former junkie that works out in jeans and swims in sewage who collects raccoon dicks is running point on this

Vicki ☮💞7

Can he help? Just kidding. 😆

mungonna8.bsky.social7

it'll be over in a few days...🙃

Small World-Big adventure6

Meanwhile, here in Australia our citizens being returned will be in quarantine for at least three-weeks. Wise move. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

LaurieIsBlue5

And the US didn’t feel the need to quarantine anyone, and has let them circulate freely spreading the “I guarantee human transmitted” virus pell mell. Great going RFK Jr.

free range mink5

WHY are said passengers returning to the U.S.??? Jesus Jesus Jesus fucking fucking fucking fucking Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ!

Antifa’s Girlfriend5

Thank you @kylegriffin1.bsky.social for not writing “mildly positive”. Maybe other journalists can get it together!

Kat K 🐾🐾4

This is the reason I have never wanted to vacation on a cruise ship. It’s a floating sewer.

Bruce Wilson4

Hey, that's inaccurate! - Reuters specified that the passenger was "mildly positive" for Hantavirus, which gives them a 40% chance of being mildly dead.

Miss Boots Blue 💙4

JFC! Here we go again!

Serendipity4

Well you know damn well Trump has a team of misfits brainstorming on how they can pin this on President Biden and or Kamala 🙃

Frank Dugan3

"Pretty soon, the number will be zero..."

Justin3

The only positive about this whole situation is this version of hanta is much much harder to transmit person to person than the common cold/flu/covid so there's a least that.

PolittleCat 🐸3

and they didn't think it necessary to contact trace the people on the planes with them. 👀

Miss Dee3

I can’t believe we are here again.

Jen3

There has to be a correlation between Trump and the plague. Is anyone looking?

Lisa Schiff3

incubation could take up to 40 days... just sayin'

Robert Democracy Illes3

Here we go again. Masks, hand sanitizer, distancing, Trump... ... where my 900 rolls of toilet paper from Target?

blueboomer3.bsky.social3

Too bad TACO fired so many CDC employees.

Stand! Shout for Blue in 2026! 💙💙3

Let’s pray that they are isolated, treated and it goes no further.

Enemy Within2

RFK jr will make sure they don’t need to mask 😷 up.

James Kennedy2

Were the flight(s) to the US charter flights or were these people exposed to others? Hantavirus may be rare, so are passengers who wear masks.

The Good Witch2

And where is the CDC? Oh, I forgot the Trump regime killed it.

Serena2

Trump is replaying his greatest hits

BRANKA JOVIC2

Well, if anyone can cause a pandemic it’s brain worm guy. Maybe they can have these 2 passengers visit the WH to let them know about their experience. Please see if you can get them visitor passes so they can meet with the imbecile in the WH ASAP! 🤞🤞🤞

billystringsphan2

I refuse to do this again.

Danno - Sigurd2

Why are they testing? All it will do is cause more cases... /s

Passem2

Here we go again! And we have that F’ing loser in office like when Covid took off.

📎Bert2

Trump recommend bleach treatment yet ?

Gibsonia2

I think I’ve already seen this movie.

Shannon Leigh11

The powers that be also have neglected to mention that a bunch of people have already disembarked, and are currently in the US…

Steve T PhD10

Doesn't it have like a 40% mortality rate?

Tim Clancy7

Positive or not. There is no mild.

Peter Hauser7

I can’t believe this is official language? What are they thinking?

aaron6

it’s just a little zombie bite

Barbara Gordon4

Sigh. Not great but not ready to freak out yet. “Mildly positive” is an asinine take. Did they mean mild symptoms?

Schimelsal4

Most Americans will swallow it whole. Our foundational science education is nonexistent.

Tom Spoors3

The PCR aids identification through amplification of specific DNA/RNA sequences. So they either found the sequence or not. Unless they mean the symptoms are mild then this is one of those 'almost unique' euphemisms that gives plausible deniability.

nailbomb32

high Ct value? It's unclear to me.

It's Chris!2

"one travellers suitcases were entirely filled with rats but he said they were service animals"

Gabriel S. Jacobs2

I do not care if it's a faint band on the gel, a positive result is a positive result.

The Liminalist2

I don't think people know how bad this is and, if the ease of transmission is to be believed as being other than prolonged close contact, how mindbogglingly bad this can be. Hanta is not a nice way to go, and it can morph into a kind of hemorrhagic fever, which is even worse.

deanna22

This is WONDERFUL. What could go wrong-Good thing we all learned our lessons & made every business & school up the air filtration to HEPA since we all know relying on people to do the right thing is a losing game. We'd have been real stupid not to do that everywhere after that-Good thing we learned!

SusanBee10

What this makes me realize is that they have no fucking clue about its transmission.

Sandra ✒ SL Gore8

Andes Hantavirus appears to be more contagious than intimate contact only.

Polly Curley3

Cruise ships are glorified petri dishes.

Paul Lomax2

Seems to contradict their statement last Thursday quoted by the BBC today.. bsky.app/profile/paul...

giakson.bsky.social16

Health officials trying to decide how to move forward? If they didn’t want to reinvent the wheel every time, they should already have a playbook based on historical events and data with a predetermined response. They may not always have the benefit of time to draw up a new plan.

CC10

Sure send infected people to multiple states what could go wrong?

Beep Beep B*tch8

Some. Some American passengers. The headlines makes it sound like everyone who touched the boat is in quarantine. That’s just not true.

Meaghan Keating6

We’re completely screwed if this thing becomes another pandemic especially since they gutted the cdc and left the WHO.

jpure.bsky.social4

I’m pretty confident America is in good hands when the guy who said to drink bleach to kill Covid is President and the crackhead who snorted cocaine on toilet bowls is health secretary. 😁😁

Joe Darkmoon4

Don't worry. I am sure the Christians will pray it away like they did COVID.

GrisGris4

Just thinking how that movie, The Andromeda Strain, was so good!

rlnees.bsky.social3

Start by guaranteeing Nebraska and have the WHO in to monitor. The fascists tired all our qualified scientists and doctors.

healinghands65.bsky.social3

What officials?!?! We have a bunch of unqualified kooks running everything!!! They’ll be giving people ivermectin and rubbing them with cow dung as a remedy. 🤦‍♂️ #IdiotsRunThisCountry

Alexander3

Was on board a ship the perfect quarantine then you spread them around the world is it's Gates plane

Grumpy Grandpa2

Is “ mildly positive “ like almost pregnant?

Nick2

I'm sure an infra red lamp shoved up their rectum will be sufficient for the administration.

Otto Kat 🇺🇦⚫️ Герої не вмирають2

Good luck to Nebraska. Stay safe and wear masks until the rest of the world figures out what is and how to fight this virus (as it seems that your gov will most probably get you killed)

OverturnCitizensUnited9

With RFK jr in charge, what could possibly go wrong?

genxjennifer.bsky.social8

Hope they are being quarantined.

Patricia Plonsker8

HANTAVIRUS: US govt is refusing to act as a federal govt, US media are complicit. This virus is a serious risk. Le Monde says that 5 French cruise pax are hospitalized in Paris. The French federal govt is managing their quarantine by decree. They must quarantine for 42 days.

Denz Kerbo5

A scenario: Deadly Andean Hantavirus starts spreading in the US, castrated CDC is helpless to stop it, RFK says no to masks and social distancing. Christians say its punishment from god against the lgbt. In June, millions gather to watch d USA Fifa World Cup. A new pandemic is born

Dingus Ex Machina5

Prolly no need to quarantine him or the other passengers…

pharmboy81.bsky.social4

It's only a matter of time.

CC3

“The Americans would first be flown to the University of Nebraska, which has a federally funded quarantine facility”

Disorderly Borderline 🇨🇦3

Cruise ships really are basically petri dishes.

Half-ass Matt2

NEVER underestimate this administration's ability to mismanage an outbreak.

rhonnie-72.bsky.social2

So passengers on this cruise ship are exposed to a disease caused by rodent feces, urine, or saliva. Charming. The cruise ship in the Caribbean exposed its passengers to norovirus, spread by fecal-oral route. Again, charming.

Steve Lewis23

I also saw a report that a person can transmit infection prior to displaying symptoms towards the end of this. www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/infectiou...

thefossil.bsky.social17

WHO, they still aren't saying it's airbourne transferable. They say you need extended contact with someone infected. Haven't WHO learnt, haven't world governments learnt. 🤷

Irene Lomis12

Good luck with “active monitoring”.

Fiona R9

Hopefully the WHO is getting involved with monitoring the passengers of the St Helena to Johannesburg flight. aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/airlink... I’d sure as shit be isolating myself (and I wear an N95 when traveling) if I had been on that plane.

Dan Jago6

Maria finally woke up. One pandemic disaster about to become two.

Susan loves democracy6

Remember when Americans had meltdowns because we were told to wear masks?

GW2

Horse has bolted. WHO had a small opportunity to redeem themselves post covid airborne debacle and before the disembarkation this time around but have shown they are still not serious.

Elvis-it's a nickname2

Would really like a definition of "active monitoring." And then I'd like to know how "monitoring" helps mitigate the risk of spread, while we figure out what it takes for this version of this virus to spread.

Justan49

What the fuck does mildly positive mean?

RogerWagnerMDPhD48

A PCR test is positive or negative. These people are either incompetent or lying.

Tania J. Spencer36

"Mild", with a high case fatality rate (CFR), estimated between 25% and 50%. Okay then.

Princess Buttercup ☠21

It's a dichotomy FFS. Mildly pregnant? Mildly dead? Come on Reuters you're better than this.

D15

This kinda how COVID started. Remember?

Harter Lancet11

Youre getting mildly dragged for "mildly positive" and frankly it should be significantly more

Josh Colletta, professional loudmouth11

"Mildly positive?!" The fuck does "mildly positive" mean?! There is positive and there is negative. There is no in-between. You either have it or you don't.

Calvinball Congress10

google, show me a long term consequence of american media downplaying a pandemic…

Richie Ryan10

“Tested mildly positive for hantavirus,” is that like light treason?

drraymond.medsky.social8

When a test is either positive or negative there is NO mildly positive. This is shite journalism

beef fizz6

the fuck is "mildly positive"

EPSTEIN☠️FILES🇺🇦🇵🇸🐸🚫🧊👑6

Is this based on a spicyness scale?

Roch Bourassa5

“mildly positive” is quite Python-esque!

Brad Me to the Signal Chat5

Sidedar: How many were *mildly* pregnant?

Pedinska5

The "mild positive" test should, more properly, be designated "inconclusive". That can happen with PCR tests for a variety of reasons. Next steps would include re-resting to be sure that low viral load due to testing too early isn't the cause. shcs.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/file...

Ardern of Chaversham5

Only positive in the mornings from 9 untill 11?

Brian E4

"Mildly positive"? How is that possible? Positive/negative is a binary diagnosis. It's not like it's on a scale or spectrum, such as saying someone is "a little drunk" or "slightly nauseous". It's one or the other. In this case, it's positive. Don't manipulate words to control the narrative.

wohinjetzt4

Did you really say “mildly positive?” Is that like “mildly pregnant?” Stop being stenographers.

Bryan Marchese4

They have the fucking disease or not you god damn fucking idiots. There is no mild fuck you...only FUCK YOU!

ScottG.4

They need to be put into Quarantine until they find a way to stop the spread.

Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid4

"Testing mildly" is not a thing. Stop it. Hantavirus is not mild. It has a 40% fatality rate.

AzFalconer3

AI writing the headlines? "Mildly positive "

Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁3

Is mildly positive like being a little bit pregnant?

🇨🇦 Shani Komulainen 🍁3

🧵 Important to consider: bsky.app/profile/jvip...

jeddadiah tomas2

If it’s only mild, it doesn’t count, right?

Just me Keo2

So the money must go towards to suing the ship company

The Philly ROCK Network2

BUCKLE UP BUTTERCUPS!! ANOTHER PANDEMIC ON THE WAY AND I'LL GIVE YOU ONE GUESS WHO'S IN OFFICE AGAIN. I WONDER WHAT THE DEATH TOLL WILL BE THIS TIME? 🤔😷🤧

Bryan Michael Francis5

I have confidence in RFK Jr. I’m confident he will find a way to hamper professionals and fuck this up.

HopeFlowers2

She has a great breakdown here: bsky.app/profile/ylep...

IYKYK15

So weird to call it a "mild" positive instead of the more common "weak" positive. "Mild" doesn't really mean anything in this context.

c0nc0rdance15

That's uh... that's now how qualitative detection thresholds work.

wndl "low IQ" bl13

It's a woman, and she's just a little bit pregnant

Thomas [3.8 Chronic Diseases], DO13

Just one virus particle was detected.

Stuart Neil7

Maybe more a reflection of the usual crap CDC PCR assay if track record is anything to go my!

Mrs. PA-C7

“Idk guys it was a faint line on the test, so they’re like, only kinda positive?”

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist4

JFC Did it take 30 cycles to see a signal? lol

FedUp ❌👑 (she/her/y'all)2

My thought its like when you're at the end of COVID and you're testing for negative and there is one pale line. Perhaps s/he has the virus but it's weakened? Who freaking knows...HHS asshat secretary controls every word that comes out of CDC, and usually he's wrong 🤬

Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid3

Here in the US, one of the cable news shows had on a physician who read the science (!) and reported fully, honestly, and accurately about the virus, this outbreak, and how it should be handled. It was refreshing to see a knowledgeable, competent professional delivering accurate information.

Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid2

He said it is airborne and does not require "close, prolonged" contact, and he cited two studies that prove that. He said the main concern is to prevent spread from quarantined individuals to household members, and he discussed ventilation, but did not mention respirators.