{"id":13632,"date":"2026-05-07T23:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=13632"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:56:56","slug":"who-finally-issue-statement-on-likelihood-of-hantavirus-becoming-the-next-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=13632","title":{"rendered":"WHO finally issue statement on likelihood of hantavirus becoming the \u201cnext covid\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Panic is rising on the open sea. Three people are dead, nearly 150 are trapped, and a virus with a 40% fatality rate is spreading fear far beyond the decks of a single cruise ship. Officials insist this is \u201cnot the next Covid\u201d \u2013 but even they admit so much remains unkno\u2026&nbsp;<strong>Continues\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Far from the scrolling chaos of social media, the reality is both more sobering and more measured than the panic suggests. Hantavirus is deadly, but it is not new, and it does not spread with the ruthless efficiency of Covid-19. Most infections come from contact with infected rodents, not from casual conversation or shared air in a supermarket aisle. That\u2019s why the Hondius outbreak is so unsettling: no rodents have been found, and investigators are now forced to consider the rare possibility of person-to-person transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the passengers, fear is not theoretical. They are living it in confined corridors, waiting for test results and evacuation lists, listening for every cough. Yet outside that ship, the WHO\u2019s message is clear: the overall public health risk remains low. The lesson is not to surrender to dread, but to demand transparency, invest in surveillance, and remember how fragile \u2013 and how protectable \u2013 our shared world still is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panic is rising on the open sea. Three people are dead, nearly 150 are trapped, and a virus with a 40% fatality rate is spreading fear far&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13633,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions\/13633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}