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Hantavirus, the Pandemic Treaty, and a Lot of Odd 'Coincidences'

Hantavirus, the Pandemic Treaty, and a Lot of Odd 'Coincidences'

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Three people are dead, one is in intensive care in Johannesburg, and a Swiss man is now isolated in a Zurich hospital after stepping off a ship that visited some of the most remote corners of the planet. The MV Hondius — a Dutch-flagged Oceanwide Expeditions vessel — sailed from Ushuaia, Argentina on April 1, threaded its way through Antarctica, South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, Saint Helena, and Ascension, and is now bound for Spain’s Canary Islands after Cape Verde refused it port.

The pathogen onboard is hantavirus, specifically the Andes strain. Of every hantavirus strain on earth, that is the only one known to transmit between human beings.

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