Three dead. Passengers in 23 countries. One cruise ship.


The Andes strain of hantavirus is the rare version that spreads human to human.
It kills up to 40% of those infected. In a 2018 outbreak, one man infected someone after a single moment of contact.
Is this the next pandemic?
WHO says no... And then they said they expect a few more cases.
On the plus side, the transmission window is only one day you contagious when you spike a fever, then the window closes.
But viruses like to mutate, and that's when things get 2020.
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