The cruise ship MV Hondius (Oceanwide Expeditions) which has been trying to find a port following an outbreak of Hantavirus, will be permitted by Spain to transfer passengers at the island of Tenerife. There are 17 Americans on board who will be transferred by the CDC from Tenerife to the National Quarantine Center at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. Once there, they will remain in isolation for 42-days under observation.
(VIA CBS) – World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Tenerife Saturday to personally oversee the painstaking process of evacuating more than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus.
Addressing the people of the Canary Islands, where the ship will anchor off the coast of its largest island, the WHO chief said the public’s concern is legitimate after what the world experienced in 2020 during the global coronavirus pandemic.
“This disease is not COVID,” Tedros said, reiterating a letter he wrote earlier Saturday. “The risk to the local population is low.”
Tedros said that the nature of the hantavirus is not the same as the coronavirus, but “that trauma is still in our minds.”
“That’s why also I came here,” he said. “To be on the side of the people because saying things from far could be easy. But I had to change my plans to come here because this is very, very important to the whole world and to the people of Tenerife as well.”
Eight people on the cruise ship had confirmed or suspected cases of the hantavirus and three people have died, the WHO said on Friday. None of the 147 people currently on board, including 60 crew members, are symptomatic, according to Oceanwide Expeditions, which owns the vessel.
Tedros estimated Saturday that there will be six evacuation flights headed for the EU and four for non-EU countries.
There are 17 Americans on the MV Hondius, according to Oceanwide Expeditions, who will be taken off the ship in a small boat, taken to shore and immediately to a plane on the runway waiting for them. The plane, provided by the U.S. government with oversight from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will take the Americans to the National Quarantine Center at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, according to the CDC.
“I’m sure they’re very anxious to get home, but (we need) to make sure they do that in the most safe way possible,” Maria van Kerkhove, WHO’s acting director of the Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, said at a press conference on Saturday.
Each country with passengers on board the ship will proceed with a similar evacuation to awaiting planes, according to the Spanish Health Ministry.
The WHO said it was recommending each country keep the passengers removed from the ship in isolation for 42 days from the last point of exposure to the virus. (Read More)
Just another reason to avoid cruise ships.
Tedros can get bent.
I think the murder rate in Chicago is about to drop dratically. Everyone will now die of hantavaris.
BREAKING: Man died, declared first hantavirus victim after being decapitated in a motorcycle accident.
Man died in a hunting accident ruled a hantavirus death.
What if clintoncide is really hantavirus?
We all know what they are trying to do… again…. How do we STOP IT.
Without hantavirus gain of function, this week known and quite ancient rodent virus was first known in the 1930s and is, in fact already everywhere in the world.
Gene Hackman’s wife died of it. This is not a world wide spread issue. It’s an issue of not controlling and being aware of rodent infestation.
If ever there is to be a way to stop it before it starts it’s to inform the public of the facts.
We don’t need another ridiculous and dangerous thing like this to happen again.
It frankly depends on Trump…. during the first scamdemic he wanted the world to know that it originated from China and wanted the world to de couple from Chinese supply chains …he went along with the likes of Fraudci and Scarf face because it helped him in his war against the Chicoms
If he thinks that a second iteration of this squeeze China strategy is needed, he will be onboard with it
This is the sad ugly reality we live with
CIA, Uk, German intel are all pretty sure it was from that Wuhan virus lab… not double-double bay burger with spicy pangolin musk sauce.
Still not sure why the west has not demanded lab closed down
I’m still wondering why the world has not embargoed all of China. They killed millions. Had they done so using bombs the entire world would be at war with them.
Biological weapon not so much. They all knew, and approved.
Give them Ivermectin!
YES!
Hanta Virus is a RNA virus and the late doctor Zelenko ( may his memory be blessed) said that RNA viruses respond to IVM and HCQ. With Zinc and Vit C
And Quercetin and vitamin D! Zinc is the bullet and Quercetin is the rifle that opens up the virus! RIP Dr Zelenko! He prevented me from getting the experimental mRNA shot tarted up as a vaccine! I knew if there was a cure, and he was curing people with early treatment, there is no need for a vaccine! That’s why there was a vicious attack on Ivermectin as a “horse goo”. The problem is the vaccine didn’t prevent infection or transmission! It did kill hundreds of thousands of people and injured millions! But Big Pharma made billions and got immunity protection to boot! It was a “pandemic of under treatment” – Dr Pierre Kory!
This is my ‘not medical advice’ disclaimer, however:
This prevented me from getting “The Jab” in 2020; Zelenko’s ‘Z-stack’.
Have continued to use it every time I feel cold or flu coming on. I haven’t been bed-ridden in six years.
https://zstacklife.com/products/z-stack
Same, I have taken it daily since Z stack first came out.
I started to take Quercetin + zinc from Dr Zelenko’s advice. Not only did I never get the Wuhan Flu and no kill shots but I Quercetin is great for allergies. I’d never heard of it until Dr. Zelenko. It’s like a miracle drug for the Tennessee Crud.
Most cruise companies sell themselves on the idea that you can have all of the comforts and protections of “America” while traveling to distant ports – clean lodging, good food, background checked English speakers taking care of you, good medical care on board, safe and fun shore excursions planned by knowledgeable, well vetted local companies…
Unfortunately, as some people only find out too late, pretty much NONE of those things are true! The odds are still in your favor, especially if you are young and healthy, but there are also the unlucky ones who find out firsthand that the ships are flagged in foreign ports (no US legal protections apply) the staff is usually unvetted people from the 3rd world with less than stellar hygiene (to put it mildly), the kitchens are often filthy (again, sanitary issues with staff who do not always clean equipment well) the doctor is actually an independent contractor and NOT an employee of the cruise line (makes it almost impossible to sue for malpractice) and the shore excursions often follow the lax safety standards of the country in which the occur (possibly happened in this case – tourists were allowed to get way to close to what sounds like an incredibly unsanitary landfill, in order to see certain birds?).
All in all, no thank you very much!! But, like so many other areas in life, for the people who “enjoy” going on cruises, the facts about it are inconvenient and therefore NOT welcome!
All true. Behind the scenes those ships are filthy. Also when its cold they put central heating on which spreads the germs through the aircon units in each cabin. Happened to someone I know who went to Antarctica on Ship Of the World which is THE most luxurious ship. He got severe pneumonia and had to go to the ships ICU where he said they were wonderful. He was treated there by by the best Drs and equipment -even CT scanner and lab on the ship. He then spent the rest of the time in his cabin but it took him a long time to recover when he got back home
Consider the reasons such facilities are on a pleasure cruise ship. All of the motivations are to run that ship as long and as often as possible. Downtime is death to the business.
The medical facilities are usually state of the art, but often the doctor is getting “comped” the trip, in exchange for working a few hours per day. If they don’t want to be bothered, then there is no alternative for someone who needs immediate attention. Glad that your friend made it – not everyone does, unfortunately.
I think recent years events should have killed that industry.
I’m already biased against it due to my experience in the US Navy. Going to sea is not fun. Even if you aren’t “working” you can only try to distract yourself from the limitations imposed by living on a floating steel building with no easy way off until the journey ends on schedule.
I’m not claustrophobic in the slightest. It’s more about limitations and not being able to do what I want when it’s not accessible on the ship.
But then in this industry, it’s a floating restaurant… a massive one! There are rules about food on ships and how it should be managed. Can’t do that on pleasure cruises. There is already precious little what people can do on a ship. Eating is the single most common ‘retreat’ to comfort that humanity knows. It’s not hard to imagine that food is EVERYWHERE on the ship.
How expensive would it be to dry dock a cruise ship and strip it clean the way a US Navy vessel is? I’ve been through that. It’s ROUGH and consuming. No one cares if you’re a high tech skilled guy, you’re chipping paint and cleaning spaces until the work is done.
I’m willing to bet that it never ever happens.
I would not take that bet because I suspect you are correct!
How can a ship have a significant Norovirus outbreak and then be sufficiently sanitized in less than a day for the next boarding? I have seen reports that show dozens of cabins still showing traces of vomitus and feces from the prior guests, when seen under a black light.
But since the CDC allows the cruise industry to basically “inspect” themselves, under the Vessel Sanitation Program, that kind of information is very hard to find! And the media won’t touch it because they don’t want to lose the millions in advertising revenue that they receive from the cruise lines!
If a cruise ship suddenly announces a surprise “ice cream social” on the Lido deck…. It means they had a death of a passenger on board… they have to move out the ice cream in the walk in freezer to make room for the corpse.
Actually, the ice cream machine is one of the main culprits of illness onboard cruise ships as they are very seldom cleaned properly!
There is a small morgue onboard all cruise ships – usually holds 2-5 bodies, depending on the size of the ship, but they are offloaded at whatever the next port may be, regardless of the nationality of the passenger. The spouse or family members are dropped off as well and have to try to figure out how to get their loved one back home…trust me, I know far more about this subject than I ever wanted to know!
But they do such cute things with the towels!!!!!!!
More CIA fear porn, distraction timing on this is why now? hmmmmmmm
The mid-terms aren’t going as smooth as they think. They need a backup plan.
weird fact: gene hackman and his wife both died under mysterious conditions. wild theories circulated and then it was determined his wife died of hantavirus, likely exposed from deer mice which are carriers. a human can get infected when these mice urinate in your house, on your things, like dishes, silverware, tables, chairs, shoes, toothbrush. Sadly, the cause of death for Gene Hackman was indirectly related to his wife’s cause of death. He had advanced parkinsons’ and relied 100 percent on his wife to support him. He died of starvation. It would also appear that at least of of the dogs also died of starvation.
I dunno why I write all this stuff. the link between hantavirus I guess ….but also the peculiar circumstances of two deaths. Really weird stuff.
anyway…hantavirus is no joke. If you can get treatment early and your health and immune system is strong, you have about a 70 percent chance of surviving. But if you are not in good health, older, a weak immune system, and do not get help until you get full blown symptoms. 100 percent mortality. Symptoms do not always appear immediately. This explains why the quarantine in Nebraska for 42 days.
also noting: there are several different classes of hantavirus. we cannot simply assume based on the ports of call from this ship which type has infected the ship. The most likely vector was rodent infestation. But one would want to know where the food supply was routed, as that is most likely going to give you the regional hantavirus type. Other than lab testing obviously.
also noting: hantavirus, orthohantavirus genus., 37 known species. the typical transmission is respiratory…breathing fine particles of mouse urine, feces, and “other” mouse fluids. Another less common transmission to humans is being scratched or bites from a mouse/rodent. Only one species (Andes) of this virus has been confirmed evidence that the virus can be transmitted human to human. However, when examining the genomic sequences differences between all 37 species, one would be wise to assume that human to human transmission is not only possible, but likely. The virus is RNA tripled segmented at approx. 70–350 nanometers (nm) = over the counter masks are not effective! One of the reasons why hantavirus has such a high mortality rate is because it is very very rare and human beings do not have memory of this type virus, unlike for example the common cold, a corona virus.
also noting: while the plan appears to be a 42 day quarantine, if that extends to 3-6 months will be a reasonable signal that those people are infected and in recovery. recovery can take a long time and since the virus can lay dormant for quite a while and there is no known vaccinne or cure, they would extend the quarantine for quite a bit of time well after the 42 day preliminary hold.
yep, not making any plans to cruise ship…never did float my boat
God Bless America
Long recovery Because they will NOT be given any sort of effective remedial treatments –
high dose IV Vitamin C is an absolute toxin neutralizer… absolutely NOT any kind of Orthomolecular Medicine will be made available to these people; none to any sick persons *ever* in the dominant system ruled by pHARMa.
Ivermectin Hydroxychloroquine likely also withheld and out of the question… even though proven to be harmless & effective remedies for viral infections.
pHARMa is the obstacle to CURES for ailments, and to mass Health & Wellness in the West.
I contracted this virus when I was 14 yrs old[now 75] sweeping out our families barn getting ready for a new batch of hay bales. The Drs said it was unheard of for someone my age to have such a severe case of pneumonia [what they thought it was until the lab results came back from out of state] that was in 1965…Cg
I was wondering which state you were in when you got the Hanta virus. I remember a very sad story that happened back when I was a kid and living in the So Cal area. A young couple were refurbishing a cabin up in the San Bernardino Mtns., when they both got the virus. I believe they both died. I think Gene Hackman and his wife lived near Santa Fe. Another terrible story.
The Southwest U.S. can be a pretty scary place. You can still get pneumonic plague from rodents here. Add that to the rattle snakes, scorpions, Gila Monsters, etc., etc., and sometimes you just want to hide out with everything closed up tight and the air-conditioner blasting. Thank goodness for the internet. =)
Superlative, and accurate.
Any institution that provides services to groups of people in containment would be an opportunity for diseases like hantavirus. Most labor and their supervisors aren’t all that conscientious. Most don’t have clean places to live – to wash their hair, linens, uniforms – either, and are absolutely exposed to vermin and pet waste.
As far as I can tell, most public health departments don’t have any intention of doing anything about this, and the institutions/enterprises take precautions based on business risk a$$e$$ment.
NOROVIRUS!!!
Because hantavirus isn’t contageous enough…
{ Over 100 Passengers and Crew Stricken with Highly Contagious Norovirus on Caribbean Princess Cruise Ship }
Sounds like Princess Cruise Ships should be fined into non existence!
The Whirled Health Organization would never lie.
Rats Cruises…every sailing vessel, that size and food supply, has rats…..guess they don’t want us talking about the 23 illegal invaders working on a busted Disney cruise, that were child sex offenders….
Mickey Mouse – a rodent – sure turned out to be a fitting iconic logo for the Disney corp. brand…
totally creepy filth-mongers.
WHO-World Hoax Organization
https://substack.com/@drwojakmd/note/c-256003474?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
How long before CVS is advertising for the new hantavirus vaccine. GOTTA Get it folks.
When does Tedros start recommending mass vaccinations and boosters again ??
I didnt realize that he was still in existence at that place. Too bad he’s not out of a job yet.
Patient zero had visited a rat infested landfill to see some bird. He then got on the cruise ship with his wife. Then got sick and died, she got off the ship somewhere with his body and died in the airport, both elderly
They say wisdom comes with age, but not always.
After he died the whole ship hugged her… she later died after being evacuated to Johannesburg from St Helena Island with her husbands body
Oh great . . . “the whole ship hugged her”, then she died. There is such a thing as the domino effect.
Hantavirus is carried by different types of rodents (rats and mice) that are known to crawl up the mooring lines of ships in port. The mooring lines that hold the ship in port are supposed to be fitted with what is often called “rat-guards” on them to prevent the rodents from entering the ship. But once on the ship, any rodents that have the Hantavirus can spread it by leaving urine, droppings, or saliva around the ship, which can then become airborne and inhaled by people passing by. The company that runs the cruise ship and/or the port facility should be held liable if it is revealed that no precautions (like putting the rat-guards on the mooring lines) were taken.
There have been cases of people contracting hantavirus since the 1990’s in NM. It occurs with heavy infestations of deer mice and is caused by inhaling their urine and droppings.
I have read that it is not a respiratory illness and is not easily transmitted.
Cruise ships are floating petri dishes
Revealed: The ‘real ground zero’ where deadly hantavirus outbreak that ravaged cruise ship began
Official reports have claimed the lethal strain of hantavirus – the only variant which can be transmitted between humans – originated on a massive landfill and bird-watching site in the city of Ushuaia at the southern tip of Argentina.
But the MoS has discovered that ‘patient zero’, Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, 70, who boarded the MV Hondius with his wife, Mirjam, 69, had recently visited northern Patagonia, where there have been 101 confirmed cases of the disease, including 32 deaths, over the past several months.
Speaking from Ushuaia, Juan Petrina, director of epidemiology for Tierra del Fuego state, last night told this newspaper: ‘The virus has never been here. We don’t know where the information is coming from saying the couple caught the virus at the local tip.
‘Even if they did go there, which we don’t know, the colilargo rat, which carries the virus, is not there.
‘They were in northern Patagonia 25 to 30 days before coming to Ushuaia. They almost certainly contracted the illness there.
‘They arrived here on the afternoon of March 29 so only had two full days before boarding the ship. The incubation period is at least a week.’
The strain of virus which killed both Mr and Mrs Schilperoord, as well as a third unnamed passenger, is known as the Andes strain and is found in Neuquen, Rio Negro and Chubut provinces in northern Patagonia.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15803865/The-REAL-hantavirus-ground-zero-Birdwatching-Dutch-couple-DIDNT-catch-rat-virus-landfill-site-says-official-NEW-location-falls-spotlight.html
What is Tedros doing there? Trying to make himself look important to promote his failing pandemic treaty?
I was an air ambulance pilot flying out of Albuquerque, NM in the early 2000s. Had a flight to Window Rock, on the Navajo Reservation one morning. I was shocked to see my medical team get out of the ambulance wearing full body isolation suits! They told me to go back to the airplane and put mine on as they had a suspected Hantavirus patient to fly back to Albuquerque. When we got there, we had to go through special decontamination processes before we could take off the suits, and ditto for the airplane, which was out of service for several days. At that time, they thought the local strain was airborne transmitted. Later they discovered it wasn’t. Our patient has been infected digging pine nuts out of a rodent’s burrow. That strain was particularly virulent, causing death within 72 hours of exposure in many cases. If it mutates to become easily transmited, it could be really scary.
This is the only strain of hantavirus that can be transmitted by close contact with an infected human. The Omaha facility is the most secure facility in the country. This is simply a serious precaution, since I assume most of us would prefer that a hantavirus strain localized in the Andes not become endemic in the U.S.
Dr John Campbell’s offering on hantavirus includes some good observations as to how it’s spread (inhaling mice nest dust or sweeping). He stops short of including any cheap and available remedies that have been studied and shown to work against hanta for fear of you-tube taking down his video.
In conclusion, our results indicate that chloroquine has a strong in vitro antiviral activity against several hantavirus species, which include New World as well as Old World viruses. Furthermore, chloroquine was highly effective against Hantaan virus infection in an in vivo infection model with 1-day-old suckling mice and showed its prophylactic and therapeutic potential in the lethal Andes virus hamster model.
These findings suggest that chloroquine, a ubiquitously available medicine of low cost with little side effects, has a potential new role in the prevention or treatment of hantavirus infections.
Chloroquine, an Anti-Malaria Drug as Effective Prevention for Hantavirus Infections – PMC
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8006394/
What about quarantining the cruise ship gets back in an Argentinian port (and then sink the ship offshore…just to be sure) so that strain doesn’t get loose in Omaha which is basically the Geographic center of our Country…. And then a single medical employee staffer, who is engrossed with Rik tok video on cellphone screws up containment protocol with pizza delivery guy who then spreads it to all his other customers.????
“It is important to note that common house mice, roof rats, and Norway rats do not carry the hantavirus strains that cause HPS in the United States”
only
“In North America, the deer mouse is the most common carrier of the Sin Nombre virus, which causes Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS).
Other wild carriers in the United States include the white-footed mouse (Northeast), the cotton rat (Southeast), and the rice rat (Southeast).”
I doubt they will distinguish, seems to be same play book as covid, this tells me that they fear losing in the fall and this is the insurance policy.
Well this is awful..
Whatever virus they had cooked up for 2028 must now be in place before this year’s mid-terms..
Oh, great. UNMC ran the state of Nebraska during Covid, demanding lockdowns, school closings, mask mandates and vaccines. They relished the power they wielded at that time. Looks like they need another fix.
That is one dirty ship.
Hantavirus is a family of viruses that primarily spread through contact with rodents. These viruses can lead to serious diseases in humans, notably hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS).
TransmissionHantavirus is mainly transmitted through: