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GreatGazoo

(4,682 posts) Thu May 7, 2026, 11:11 PM Thursday

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KLM Flight Attendant's Hantavirus Test Results Announced

KLM would not release the results citing medical privacy ethics but

On Thursday evening, Tedros Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, said in a message that the flight attendant, who has been reported to have symptoms, had tested negative on two tests. The news was first reported in the Inside Medicine newsletter. The result is reassuring because it suggests the virus is not being transmitted in ways beyond what scientists have observed in prior outbreaks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/world/europe/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak.html

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KLM Flight Attendant's Hantavirus Test Results Announced (Original Post) GreatGazoo Thursday OP

We had Covid during Trump I RussBLib Thursday #1

So far there is no evidence that this Hondius outbreak is transmitting GreatGazoo Friday #3

that is, well, tentatively good news Skittles Friday #2

RussBLib

(10,723 posts)

1. We had Covid during Trump I

Reply to GreatGazoo (Original post)

Thu May 7, 2026, 11:58 PM

Thursday

…will we get hantavirus under Trump II?

COVID killed about a million Americans.

Hantavirus is much more lethal.

GreatGazoo

(4,682 posts)

3. So far there is no evidence that this Hondius outbreak is transmitting

Reply to RussBLib (Reply #1)

Fri May 8, 2026, 07:33 AM

Friday

person-to-person. That's what the WHO is saying here.

Regardless, the USA needs a real healthcare system ASAP.

Skittles

(172,638 posts)

2. that is, well, tentatively good news

Reply to GreatGazoo (Original post)

Fri May 8, 2026, 12:07 AM

Friday

and we need all the good news we can get with these assclowns "in charge"

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