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"I do understand why people jump to that conclusion," Dr. Charlotte Hammer, assistant professor in Health Security and Infectious Diseases at the University of Cambridge, told CNN on Saturday. "We have a collective memory of Covid, but if you look at the virus and at the disease, we are looking at something quite different here."

"But I need you to hear me clearly: this is not another COVID-19."

Famous Last Words. 😷😬🤨

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Quote from: RE on May 10, 2026, 12:03 AM"But I need you to hear me clearly: this is not another COVID-19."
Famous Last Words. 😷😬🤨
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Hantavirus ain't Covid. The difference between the two is fundamental. Very few people in the US go around in direct contact with various infected rodents....particularly their urine, feces or saliva. Maybe folks in Alaska in survival situations might do it commonly, but in the L48 not so much.

Last time I heard about a hantavirus death down here in Colorado was like more than a decade ago, and involved mouse droppings and someone inhaling them somehow.

<yawn>

Need to find a better doom trigger to pretend is happening this week. Maybe aliens? I heard the US is hiding evidence of them.

The virus may have mutated to permit transmission between humans via saliva.  It could even be aerosolized.

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Quote from: K-Dog on May 10, 2026, 04:02 PM

KHQ.COM • 2025-02-21

Whitman County resident dies of hantavirus: First Washington state case and death in 2025

This is the first documented hantavirus case in Whitman County and the first reported in Washington state in 2025. Historically, the state sees between one and five confirmed hantavirus cases annually.

HOLY CRAP! SOMEONE DIED FROM HANTAVIRUS!!!!!

World population increases...maybe 80 million a year? To get the BEGINNING out a collapse you need 80 million non normal deaths to balance normal population growth, and then some other nice chunk like another 80 on top of that to boot.

You going to sweat hantavirus in Seattle are you?

Please. I don't mind the weird nature of doomer sites, claiming doom with every minor virus like Covid that can't offset population growth for even a year, but this one? Please.

Quote from: RE on May 10, 2026, 04:07 PMThe virus may have mutated to permit transmission between humans via saliva.  It could even be aerosolized.

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Yeah, I'll play... and David Ickes' alien overlords disguised as humans could be involved. Atlanteans among us perhaps? I got a guy on reddit going on about Tibetan monks who are sitting outside in -45F weather for 8 hours because their meditation protects them.

Could be...maybe..may have.....I completely agree.....but aren't all the ones I mentioned COOLER!

Quote from: TDoS on May 11, 2026, 03:34 PMYeah, I'll play... and David Ickes' alien overlords disguised as humans could be involved. Atlanteans among us perhaps? I got a guy on reddit going on about Tibetan monks who are sitting outside in -45F weather for 8 hours because their meditation protects them.

Could be...maybe..may have.....I completely agree.....but aren't all the ones I mentioned COOLER!

There aren't any confirmed cases of Alien Overlords.  Cases of viruses mutating are confirmed and common.

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TIK-TOC, TIC-TOC...

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Quote from: RE on May 11, 2026, 05:20 PMThere aren't any confirmed cases of Alien Overlords.  Cases of viruses mutating are confirmed and common.
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Not according to David Ickes. And of course viruses can mutate. Good thing this one isn't smart enough to have done that yet! But in the doomer realm....we can always HOPE!

How about an Ebola-Hantavirus-Covid synthetic virus concocted in an Israeli bioweapons lab to eliminate Palestinians in Gaza and Lebanon without the need for all those messy bombs?  Plus, they won't need to draft all those Ultra-Orthodox Rabbinical students into the Army!  All they need is a vaccine to immunize the Israeli population and NitwitYahoo solves all his problems.

OK, it's a little far-fetched.  Still, you can't discount anything these days. 🤢

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DuM-DUM  DUM-DUM...

50% Lethality Rate.  That's impressive

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WHO said. The organizaton has called the outbreak "extraordinary" as there are currently no approved treatments or vaccines specific to the Bundibugyo virus.  Ebola symptoms include fever, muscle pain, rash and sometimes bleeding. The virus is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids, including the handling of contaminated materials or someone who has died from the disease.

Looks like Africa's population might take a hit.  Will it go global?  Stay Tuned.

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Quote from: RElLooks like Africa's population might take a hit.  Will it go global?  Stay Tuned.

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At least something like this has a chance. Other qualifying global collapses have been disease related, so we're talking about real potential versus the make believe stuff so popular in doomerville.

Probably past the point it can be contained inside Africa.  Long as it doesn't mutate and go airborne though, there should be time to develop a vaccine. If it does go airborne or cross species though, things could get really ugly.

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Dr. Alan Gonzalez, MSF's deputy director of operations, said in a statement. "Nobody knows the true scale and severity of this outbreak."

Will it escape Africa?  Given there is NO TREATMENT & NO VACCINE available yet, it seems pretty likely to cause significant DEATH inside the Dark Continent.  How many Dead will we end up with?  Will it top 1000?  1M? 1 BILLION ?!?!? 😬👿 What's the over-under on this?  Will it have legs or will it peter out?

The more cases we get, the more likely it becomes there will be mutations.  If it goes airborne or crosses species, we're cooked.  If it hits the Avian population that will bring it to Europe pretty quickly.

On the positive side, if it gets bad enough we won't have to worry about Hormuz and the Oil trade. 😀

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