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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Settle down, we are not fucked. Hantavirus has been around forever, even this strain.

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  • akwd169@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Honestly. So much overreaction about this. Everyone is letting the news work their manipilative bullshit spreading panic and fear so you keep tuning in and clicking o

    Its pretty sad to see how many people on the fediverse are falling for the bs

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  • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Has it spread human to human? I thought that was a new thing.

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    • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It does with this strain/variant which is why this story is newsworthy. But the usual one does not. There have been localized outbreaks of this one in the past but never a worldwide pandemic.

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The andes strain has been around for some time and can be transmitted from person to person but it requires long term exposure and liquid exchange. If it spread it would be very slow to do so.

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• justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What little Ive seen documented:

  1. It was relatively new(20 years 30 years) to the southern end of South America, they beat out an initial outbreak of it, has been endemic there since.
  2. Not too much reaearch has been done on it, i.e. few experts.
  3. It appears that it is most, and potentially only infectious when symptoms are showing, particularly the fever, but is very easily spread during that small window.
  4. It seems like it isnt as easily spread as covid, but yeah, is much nastier.

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  • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s kind of two varieties. The Americas one is different to the other and was discovered more recently.

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    • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Three that I know of.
      The Eurasian/African one that is the least dangerous and doesnt transmit human to human.

      The continental Americas strain that is pretty dangerous(lethality in the 30-60% range) but doesn't spread human to human.

      The new kid on the block, the Andes strain, an offshoot of the Americas one. Last Outbreak was in a small town in Argentina in 2018, first discovered 1995, first human to human 1996. ~40 known infections, 11 deaths. Can spread human to human. It has already been confirmed we are dealing with this one.

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s almost as good as my idea. I thought like a really light version of COVID with nothing but light symptoms like fever and sneezing, but it would change your DNA just the right way, so you develop a hidden FFI prion infection, leading to you eventually not being able to sleep until you die.

  By the time anyone realizes it is even a thing, nearly everyone would be infected, just a few prions would be 100% fatal, and there would be nowhere on Earth to hide.

  Everyone dies from lack of sleep induced dementia.

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  • ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I, too have played Plague, Inc

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      👍

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• AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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