An outbreak of the hantavirus on a cruise ship has many worried we’re about to experience COVID 2.0. The WHO said the other day that this is different, and that the hantavirus — a rat-borne illness — is better known than SARS-CoV-2 was. But with reports that almost two dozen of the cruise ship passengers have returned home, many are worried there’s another pandemic on the horizon.
This writer’s older sons, who were 13 and ten during COVID, both expressed such concerns.
We’ll see what happens, but someone raised a very interesting connection. Two years ago, more than 300 vials containing deadly viruses went missing from an Australian lab.
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