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.
Another W for nurgle
I mean cruise ship, deadly virus… There was one way to solve many problems at once. Just sayin’
never heard of Hantavirus until a few months ago, when Gene Hackman and his wife died in their home, and the wife died because of the virus.
That last quote from the doctor lol
I especially love how’s it edited short. I could almost hear the “but” before the comment gets cut.
Of course no buts can be aired so consume isn’t interrupted.
They should have scuttled every cruise ship after COVID.
Yeah and covid is still going around. We just ignore it because it was “bad for the economy!” Gotta allow people to cram into tight spaces aboard environmentally destructive floating cities or else we might have actually eradicated the virus already.
This virus has a 40% mortality rate. Incubation time is 2-8 weeks. Human to human transmission.
Oh no biggie, just a literal apocalypse virus located in the middle of a tourism network; what could go wrong?
On the (depressing) upside, with such a high mortality rate, it can be self-limiting so we can contain the spread easier…
The problem is you can go weeks with very mild symptoms before dropping collapsing and dying in a couple of days.
Me when I upgrade my symptoms chart in plague inc all at once
WE ARE SO BACK
I need a sexy scientist to tell me everything is going to be okay
Not funny Brace
Tourism will kill us all.
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.
