Infection_Ag11 said:

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AggieBaseball06 said:

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OldArmy71 said:

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There were cases in Argentina in 1996 that AI says were the first proven examples of human to human transmission.

50% fatality rate.

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So this thing has been capable of human to human transmission for 30 years and has a 50% fatality rate? How are any of us still alive?

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One, it's still up for debate.

Two, an infectious disease with a mortality rate that high generally makes people too sick and kills them too fast for it to be widely transmissible. Combine that with a pathogen that lacks robust transmission virulence factors and it's never going to result in widespread transmission.

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Unless Fauci and his boys decided to do some gain of function research on it "just in case".

txags92 said:

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Infection_Ag11 said:

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AggieBaseball06 said:

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OldArmy71 said:

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There were cases in Argentina in 1996 that AI says were the first proven examples of human to human transmission.

50% fatality rate.

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So this thing has been capable of human to human transmission for 30 years and has a 50% fatality rate? How are any of us still alive?

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One, it's still up for debate.

Two, an infectious disease with a mortality rate that high generally makes people too sick and kills them too fast for it to be widely transmissible. Combine that with a pathogen that lacks robust transmission virulence factors and it's never going to result in widespread transmission.

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Unless Fauci and his boys decided to do some gain of function research on it "just in case".

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COVID at its worst had an overall mortality two orders of magnitude lower than that, and coronaviruses are inherently FAR more transmissible person to person than hantavirus.

AgsMyDude said:

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OldArmy71 said:

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There were cases in Argentina in 1996 that AI says were the first proven examples of human to human transmission.

50% fatality rate.

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Next time ask AI for its source and post that. Instead of telling us all what "AI says"

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Eric76 posted the link to the study and summarized it.


https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/3/2/97-0210_article

SIAP

1 of the 17 Americans has tested positive but shows no symptoms.

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/hantavirus-outbreak-cruise-ship-05-11-26

No one was worried about the Hanta virus when Gene Hackmans wife died from it last year because it's not election year.

— Paratrooper Brady (@paratroopbrady) May 11, 2026

That is a decent point but that was a case of animal to human transmission and not human to human, correct?

Yes. Pretty significant difference in circumstances.

AgsMyDude said:

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here we go...

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That just might the funniest picture of the lunacy of COVID I've seen. And I've see quite a few.

NYT summary of current situation:

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Three people have died. At least seven other people who were on the ship have fallen ill or tested positive, health officials said.

• One is in France. The person tested positive and her condition is deteriorating.
• Another person who tested positive is in Nebraska.
• One man is in intensive care in Johannesburg.
• The ship's doctor was "stable in isolation" after being evacuated to the Netherlands.
• A man who was a guide on the ship was also stable and in isolation in the Netherlands.
• A man who disembarked at St. Helena is hospitalized and in isolation in Switzerland.
• The health authorities in Britain said on Friday that a British citizen, who had been onboard and disembarked on Tristan da Cunha, was suspected to have the virus. On Sunday, the British military executed a parachute mission to bring oxygen and experts to the remote island.

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By today all passengers and some crew members will have been taken off the ship. The ship will continue to Rotterdam with 32 crew members, where it will be disinfected.


In late April, about 30 people from at least 12 countries also left the ship in St. Helena. That was more than a week before the first confirmed case of the virus was reported. The company has said it contacted the people who disembarked in St. Helena.

This is all terrible timing now that Violet Affleck has finally ditched her face mask.

https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15808565/Jennifer-Garner-Violet-mask-free.html

In other news, one of the other Affleck/Garner kids is still trying to ditch her vagina.

bonfarr said:

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This is all terrible timing now that Violet Affleck has finally ditched her face mask.

https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15808565/Jennifer-Garner-Violet-mask-free.html

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Should have left it on....

There are many things about genetics that I find fascinating. One of them is when two attractive people procreate and pop out ugly kids, which is quite common.