The Associated Press
@AP
May 11
BREAKING: One of the 17 American passengers evacuated from a cruise ship in the Canary Islands has tested positive for the hantavirus but is not showing any symptoms, U.S. health officials said. apnews.com/article/hantaviru…

One evacuated passenger tests positive for hantavirus and another develops symptoms on flight home

Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship have started flying home aboard military and government planes after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands.

apnews.com

May 11, 2026 · 3:30 AM UTC

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QUARANTINE THEM ALL. 8 weeks, where they can be monitored. Do not trust them to self monitor at home. Do not trust them to quarantine at home. They WILL break quarantine to go grocery shopping or out to eat because “I didn’t feel sick”. This is too important.
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Testing positive without symptoms brings up a number of questions Is this an asymptomatic case or someone that hasn’t developed symptoms yet but is already shedding virus and this was picked up because of daily testing And what does this mean for the possibility of transmission without symptoms - pre or asymptomatic transmission #Hantavirus
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Testing positive *without symptoms* should be ringing major alarm bells…🚨 …because it confirms a distinct possibility of ASYMPTOMATIC transmission. And that’s a LOT harder to manage than when people are only infectious with symptoms.
Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧@_CatintheHat
May 10
Replying to @_CatintheHat
This is another crucial point from the 2018 Argentina outbreak which may have significant bearing on what unfolds in the coming days with the cruise ship outbreak… “The window of infectiousness was 48 hours BEFORE the onset of symptoms and 48 hours AFTER the onset of symptoms.”
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It's because the tests are flawed. If you test the entire population there will be thousands of positives.
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Not unexpected, but a not big deal either. Andes Hantavirus is terrible at human to human transmission. So it is likely to phase itself out before reaching anything close to "pandemic" levels...
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Because the tests are fake and have nothing to do with illness
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The best thing to do is release both the victims and the rats into the community so this can play out.
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AndreWGMI
@AndreWGMI
May 11
asymptomatic positive... so how many more are on those planes right now that just haven't been tested yet?
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HHS created this virus. See below for my findings
Alladdin
@Alladdin1983
May 11
🚨Hantavirus panic is suddenly everywhere — but what most people do not realize is that U.S. government funding tied to hantavirus research has been flowing for over a decade. The trail goes all the way back to 2012, including funding connected to Korea University Institute for Viral Diseases, which received $59,500. Fast forward to today, and the money exploded. The latest major funding went to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with a staggering $38.1 million tied to hantavirus-related research and programs. So far, total U.S. government spending connected to hantavirus has reached nearly $200 million. Yet suddenly the media acts like this came out of nowhere. The question is: if this has been quietly funded and studied for years, why are people only now hearing about it? @data_republican @DataRepublican @ImMeme0
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Jennifer McWilliams
@Jenn_McW
May 11
Fear is a contagion- Mute the contagion (like this account) 👇
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Mike Fairclough
@1MikeFairclough
May 12
In this excellent and very clear article, Dr. David Bell explains that the WHO is inflating the threat of a minor hantavirus outbreak to push a political and financial agenda, rather than addressing major causes of mortality like malaria and TB. This fear-mongering serves to advance the WHO’s Pandemic Agreement and benefits private investors with interests in vaccine development. As many as 100,000 people get hantavirus a year (but the media has never cared about it before). The virus is not easily transmitted from human to human (usually contracted from mice and rats through their faeces, urine, saliva or bite). The WHO’s largest donor is the Gates Foundation, with a strong history of investment in the mRNA vaccine company Moderna. Since 2023, Moderna has working on a hantavirus mRNA vaccine. This vaccine market requires large swathes of the population to be convinced that they are at far higher risk from hantavirus than they actually are. In the United States the risk of contracting hantavirus is about one case per 10 million people per year, with perhaps one per million to one per 100,000 globally. Please read and share the article in the link below: dailysceptic.org/2026/05/11/…
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Clear reporting aids calm, informed decisions.
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No symptoms, but tested positive? This is just days after the WHO clearly said that you cannot test for this without symptoms first.
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2020: COVID-19 2026: Hantavirus?? Us: Bro we haven’t even recovered from the first season yet, who approved Season 2? 😭🍿
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But you forgot that there is another US citizen that is showing symptoms.nitter.cf/politico/status/205367…
POLITICO
@politico
May 11
One American has tested positive for hantavirus, another has mild symptoms dlvr.it/TST8Xh

One American has tested positive for hantavirus, another has mild symptoms

politico.com
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Imagine a billion dollar lawsuit against lying, terroristic media
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"Tested positive, but not showing any symptoms" They're going back to the "you could be sick and not know it". Fuck right off. If I'm sick, I'll show symptoms. If I'm not, I won't, so fuck off with you're bullshit fear mongering
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sooooo….each country flew their citizens back to within their borders. I understand the humanity angle. But didnt you just import the virus into several more countries?
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They’re wearing biosafety level 4 PPE for #Hantavirus. I sure hope Trump’s incompetent public health officials don’t advise pieces of useless cloth if this becomes a pandemic, as they did for BSL-3 #SARSCoV2/#COVID. Dr. Jerome Adams claimed he didn’t know, but Dr. Osterholm did.
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If only there were a hospital ship.
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Thank you for journalistically saying “not showing any symptoms” and not “mild”…
Oh Gross Show
@itsohgross
May 11
Replying to @Polymarket
OG Health: When describing symptoms sounds like HOT SAUCE or salsa. Question is how does that effect contagion level or not?
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It’s airborne and can spread asymptotically.
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The incubation period can be over fourty days. I'm monitoring the two Americans with Hantavirus and I'll update if they infected anyone else! nitter.cf/i/status/2053118155162…
Bandors@oscpmentor
May 9
I whipped up a Hantavirus tracker, I think it's better than the other ones I've seen around. Check it out and give me some feedback! hanta.bandors.org/
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Trump :The virus is coming from Iran
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How is he positive and yet not showing symptoms? Y'all are yet to tell the world how this virus works
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Isn't that convenient. Make people worry that everyone they come in contact with might have it without showing symptoms. Fuck off with your fear mongering.
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Those are rookie numbers. Gotta dial that cycle threshold rate up to 40 then we’ll be cooking with gas. If you want Covid outcomes you gotta play Covid games.
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damn is trump about to oversee another pandemic lol
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As of the end of 2023, 890 cases of hantavirus disease were reported in the United States since surveillance began in 1993 -CDC.I don't know why y'all worried like it's a new virus, the thing has been in the US for over three decades but it doesn't spread the way you're imagining
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Y'all been out here raw dogging the air for the last 6 yrs like Covid vanished when we are still in an active pandemic. Covid is an immune dysregulating virus which means you dummies keep getting infected and destroying your immune systems making way viruses like Hanta to mutate
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Asymptomatic transmitters... here we go.
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FUCK. Andes has documented casual-contact transmission, per an Argentinian study from a few years back.
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Why are the people in charge so stupid. Everyone should have been quarantined in a military facility until the dormant time frame had passed. Give them a stipend for their trouble so their families can pay their bills. Smarter to pay that for 17 people than killing 30% of the u.s
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