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[00:00:03]40 exposed passengers have already walked off the haunt virus ship and the outbreak has now reached 12 different countries across five continents and counting. People were horrified after five different just US states. Arizona, California, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia are now racing to find returning passengers just hoping they don't expose anyone else.

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[00:01:05]Y'all know it's some stuff going around on the cruise ship and all that. I ain't going to say nothing. The stuff going around and you make it to the end of this one, you a real one for real, man.

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[00:01:19]Let's go, squad. But let's go ahead and get into it. Fire squad, what's popping?

[00:01:24]Let's get it. Yep. 40 exposed passengers have already walked off the haunt virus ship and the outbreak has now reached 12 different countries across five continents and counting. People were horrified after five different just US states, Arizona, California, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia are now racing to find returning passengers just hoping they don't expose anyone else. And even on Kowi, one in five people now believe this can become the next official WHO global emergency before the year is out.

[00:01:50]Reports show this outbreak was taking the lives of passengers for 3 weeks without authorities alerting anyone.

[00:01:56]Ports kept welcoming them and by then a woman from the ship had already boarded a flight to Johannesburg with 82 other passengers that were exposed for hours all free and about. Most still unable to be traced. But it gets much worse as a flight attendant from another plane had just been hospitalized in Amsterdam.

[00:02:12]Meaning the virus isn't just on one plane now, but could be on a whole other plane traveling with all new passengers.

[00:02:18]Despite these things, the WHO has insisted this is not going to turn into a global issue. The Andes strain only spreads through prolonged close contact, not the air. So, you're not going to get it walking down the street.

[00:02:29]>> Do your own research, man. Do your own research.

[00:02:32]>> And we are just finding out about the fact that 40 people left this ship. I think we got to get the timeline right now for the Hannah virus for everybody.

[00:02:39]The first man dies on this cruise ship and then 40 passengers leave the ship between April 24th and 29th. During that same time, the wife of the man who had died, she's on her way home. Her husband who had passed away going to go through to Johannesburg in the airport. She dies, collapses, and dies between April 26 and May 2nd.

[00:03:03]Everyone's getting sick on this ship.

[00:03:06]All right. And then May 2nd, we have our third person die. German passenger dies on board. Between May 5th and May 6th, medical or evacuations are happening off of the ship. And then on May the 7th, just yesterday, a global tracking system is now underway after a Switzerland man who disembarked at St. Helena when those 40 other passengers or so disembarked before the other people started dying.

[00:03:32]Well, he's sick, too. Folks, that means that right now we have a cruise ship that had people representing 23 different countries. We don't know where the passengers who left the ship are right now. We do know that it is being transferred and we do know that multiple people have died and we know that people on the ship are still getting sick right now.

[00:03:56]>> Dang.

[00:04:02]I'm just >> in the honors outbreak. There's something super interesting happening in the background. Almost like a crime scene investigation for disease detectives. And it's very important. Let me explain why. The leading hypothesis for the start of this cruise ship outbreak is that a couple acquired haunt virus during this bird watching excursion at a landfill in a small southern city in Argentina which started on April 1st. The hypothesis is that rodents in the area were carrying haunt virus and causes zooonautic transmission to the passengers. But here's where and why an investigation is needed. A 2014 study by Argentinian researchers looked at the risk of hauntirus and strain based on where human cases have occurred and where the rodent reservoir is found.

[00:04:43]In their model, which you can see here, the highest risk areas is in the northern regions, but where the cruise ship excursion took place is down here in the southern region, classified as low risk. So what changed? That study was done in 2014. In recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in human haunt virus cases in Argentina.

[00:05:01]Researchers there suspect it's a result of climate change and warming temperatures, which is causing the rodent population reservoir to move into new areas and changing the risk. So the Argentinian health agency has sent a team to the site to trap rodents, test them for haunt, and if positive, sequence the genetic material. What could this tell us? Well, first off, whether the risk of haunt virus in Argentina is shifting geographically, and second, it could potentially confirm that this cruise ship outbreak did in fact originate in Argentina at this location. Now, this investigation will take weeks, if not months. They have to trap rodents. They have to test them for haunts, recover the virus, sequence the genetic material, and then analyze it for comparison. Nevertheless, this is a key point of the investigation to help guide future prevention measures so we don't see another outbreak like this because this outbreak is a clear example that pathogens know no borders. This is something that I'll be watching closely.

[00:05:53]So, follow along if you want to stay updated.

[00:05:56]>> Bro, this this sound like they got it from being in the trash. Oh, and the people that got off the boat and flew back to their countries, some of them have been confirmed to have the virus. You see, come to find out, the couple who brought the virus in the first place was bird watching in a landful full of rats that they might have inhaled dust that was infused with the rats dudu. Oh, and we find out some of those passengers that got off the boat did have the virus and took the virus with them to Israel, South Africa, and Switzerland. The ones in America have not shown any symptoms yet, but it takes 1 to 8 weeks before you will know if they got it. And again, this version of the virus passes on from human to human contact and has a 40% chance of fatality. It stated that if these people were showing symptoms on the plane, whoever was near them probably got it.

[00:06:43]But if they weren't, then the people near them didn't get it. Side note, make sure to follow, have notifications on, or join the Discord on my page to stay updated on everything that's going on.

[00:06:51]But the US is still claiming that there is no worry. They are trying to have everything under control. that there hasn't been any cases of anyone who wasn't on the boat getting it yet besides doctors that were trying to treat the people.

[00:07:03]>> Dang. 40% chance, bro. So, I know a lot of you have probably seen the news about the recent haunt virus cluster outbreak on an Antarctic cruise ship, the MV Hondaius. Well, on May 7th of 2026 at around 7:45 a.m., Dr. Robert Malone, who I'm sure some of you have probably heard of cuz he was on the Joe Rogan Experience back during 2020 2021 time frame. He said, quote, "Your odds of being struck by lightning are more than seven times greater than getting haunt virus in the USA. About 250 people get struck by lightning each year. There are about 35 cases per year of haunt virus in the UEA with about 12 deaths per year on average. Obviously, haunt virus shouldn't be a big concern for the vast majority of Americans. Now, just in case you haven't heard of Dr. Robert Malone.

[00:07:46]He's an American physician, a biochemist, a scientist specializing veriology, immunology, molecular biology, vaccines, and drug repurposing.

[00:07:54]He's got a bachelor's in science and biochemistry from UC Davis, a master's in science and biology from UC San Diego, and an MD from Northwestern University. He also completed a clinical research fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and pathology training at UC Davis. Bottom line is the guy is credible and knows what he's talking about. And his statistics are roughly accurate because recent National Weather Service estimates put the annual number of people struck by lightning in the US at around 270 with approximately 27 deaths and 243 injuries on average in the last decade or so. And CDC data shows that roughly 20 to 40 cases happen per year in the United States of Haunt.

[00:08:34]And the fatality rate is about 35 to 40% which aligns with the 10 to 14 deaths per year on average. And considering there's 250 lightning strikes or 270 lightning strikes that hit people per year annually in the United States and there's roughly 35 cases of haunt virus in the United States, then yes, you're about seven times more likely to be struck by lightning than you are catching the haunt virus in the United States.

[00:08:59]>> I ain't never heard of this joint before. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but did anybody else know that hundreds of vials of deadly viruses went missing after a lab breach in 20121? Take a wild guess what one of those viruses was.

[00:09:16]Queensland Health Minister Tim Nichols announced today, this was back in 2024, that 323 samples of live viruses, including Hendra virus, Lisa virus, and Havirus went missing in 2021 in a serious breach of biocurity protocols. But back in 2024 when this story was reported on, they assured the public the lab has not been able to conclude if the viruses were destroyed or removed from secure storage, but they do not appear to have been stolen. There is nothing to suggest that these have been taken from the laboratory. Secondly, we do not have any evidence that Hendrovirus has been weaponized in any way in any research laboratory. He didn't give an update about the haunt virus though. Fast forward to 2026 and surprise surprise, all of a sudden we found some haunt virus on a cruise ship. Again, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but doesn't this kind of sound like the plot of the movie 12 Monkeys? We've got the government saying that they're going to release the uh UFO files and all of a sudden we've got all this chatter and buzz around the potential of aliens coming from the future to warn us in the present about a biionuclear war. And then it turns out that those aliens are just really us from the future. It sounds just like the movie 12 Monkeys because again it is people from the future traveling to the past not to stop a biionuclear war but to stop what seems to be bowarfare right the weaponization of viruses. But again I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't think that the Simpsons or movies or novels are predicting the future. But what does seem more realistic to me is that there's a lot of malevolent people with a whole lot of power that maybe have seen some of these movies, read some of these books, are really into sci-fi who would like to live out these scenarios because they're so effing bored. That to me sounds a lot more believable.

[00:11:32]>> This whole thing sounds crazy. the people on the cruise ship that have the Hunter virus that were just allowed to get off the ship because not all of them have the virus. Well, I have a little story to tell you and take it as you will. Do whatever you want with this information. But listen up. I grew up on shifts because of my dad's job. He worked on large cargo ships. So, in order for us to see my dad or hang out with him, we would sail away with him once a year for like three months. So, when I was 8 years old, one summer, we sailed away. And basically, the other employees, they have kids as well. So all of the kids on the ship, we hang out in this little like playroom or whatever. One of the kids on that ship ended up having lice. So he ended up infecting the other kids with lice and we all started getting lice. So um I ended up getting lice, ended up giving my sister the lice. And by the time we like brushed off and got rid of all the lice in my head, my sister ended up giving me the [ __ ] lice. And by the time we got rid of the lice for my sister's head, I ended up giving my sister back the lice. Anyway, it was like a whole issue between the freaking kids. And in the end, by the end of like the two, three months of the cruise ship, we ended up getting rid of all of the lice to all of the kids. So we thought. So I get off the ship to the port. I go home lice free. I go back to school to fourth grade. Luckily, the way our school works is that every grade is isolated. Thank God. Basically, I start attending. Within a week or two weeks in school, uh, lo and behold, guess what's happening? Kids are getting lice in my grade. And everyone's looking around.

[00:13:00]They're like, "Who is giving everyone lice?" I'M THINKING, "IT'S NOT ME. It can't be me because I already had the lice multiple times." And I got off the ship with no lies. So, it's definitely not me. It's a coincidence. Anyway, guess who was actually giving everyone lice? Me. This girl. That's right. It was me. Apparently, when I got off the ship, I had little balls of lice living in my head. Not in my head, like on my scalp. And I just had no idea. and it were just growing and jumping. Anyway, >> they were trying to figure out patient zero. They were looking for me. They were trying to figure out who the [ __ ] was giving every cuz everyone in my grade in fourth grade ended up getting lice and they were trying to find patient zero. And I was like, well, it's not me. And I remember I was like in the bathroom, my mom just like brushing off these lights. And my mom said at this point my lights were like this large.

[00:13:51]She was like, >> what?

[00:13:53]>> She was like, they were like huge. There were so >> how the hell they get that big? You just don't see it on your head.

[00:13:58]>> So big. Thanks, mom. Like, okay, not right now. So anyway, she was brushing off the lights and there was a friend that came over to play with me and I WAS LIKE, "NOT NOW. NOT NOW. WE'RE BUSY." As my mom's like brushing off the lights because I was so scared that people were going to find out that I infected everyone. But yeah, that happened. So anyway, in conclusion, start doing your little Tik Tok dances and good luck. God bless. A fifth case has now been linked to the deadly cruise ship virus outbreak. So what is h virus and should people actually be worried about another co style situation? The world health organization says the number of laboratory confirmed cases linked to the mvondius has now risen to five. That includes multiple passengers who are evacuated from the ship and transferred to a hospital in the Netherlands on Wednesday. Officials say eight total cases are now connected to the outbreak with one sample still being tested. And what's raising concern is this. The strain involved is the Andes variant of antivirus. That's one of the only known forms of the virus that can spread between humans through close contact.

[00:14:56]Although fortunately, experts say that remains rare. In spite of this, there have been growing comparisons online to the early days of CO. Something the WHO is now trying to shut down.

[00:15:06]>> I think people see me sometimes and I think I you know, it's like the next co and I I really I really just want to assure people this is something that's quite different.

[00:15:13]>> The ship is currently off the coast of Cape Verde with nearly 150 people on board. So, what actually is Hivirus?

[00:15:19]It's a rare disease usually spread by infected rodents, often through breathing in particles from rat or mouse droppings. Investigators leading theory is that a Dutch couple may have picked up the virus during a bird watching trip near a landfill in Argentina before boarding the ship, but officials say they're still investigating exactly where the outbreak began. Symptoms can take weeks to appear and include fever, muscle pain, vomiting, dizziness, and severe breathing difficulties that can become life-threatening. Three passengers have already died. Health officials in South Africa are now tracing dozens of people who may have come into contact with infected passengers, including airport staff, hospital workers, and fellow travelers.

[00:15:56]>> There's a lot of uncertainty, and that's the hardest part.

[00:16:00]>> He sounds stressed the hell out.

[00:16:03]>> You're not all going to die from ha virus regardless of what a lot of people on the internet or on social media are saying. Let's go further into the numbers and actually look at what the literature the actual data shows us about not even old world hentus the one associated with the renal fever hemorrhagic uh the one from the old world those are the European strains we're talking to talk about the ones from South America that are associated with HCPS or HPS so antivirus cardopulinary syndrome or antivirus pulmonary syndrome let's take a look so let's look at some actual data so we look at the BMC public health they have a paper labeled the serero prevalence of antivirus infection in non-ep epidemic settings over four decades. A systematic review and meta analysis. This is from September of 2024.

[00:16:45]>> We can even skip >> if you'd like the fact that there are over 81,000 tests included in here. We have 3,27 events. So what what does that even mean? That means the global prevalence of people who have antibodies to antivirus is 2.93%. But I'm even going to ignore that and we're going to go straight strictly to the Americas, okay?

[00:17:05]because we know that it is the antiviruses from the new world, the ones from the South Americas that are associated with HCPS, HPS. We're talking about a 2.43% serero prevalence. That means that on average 2.43% of the population has antibodies to antivirus, which means they have been exposed and may or may not have actually had an illness.

[00:17:30]>> My favorite sentence from the entire thing is this. The presence of these viruses across the world, even in areas where clinical cases are rare, suggests that the widespread exposure has occurred globally with many individuals likely coming into contact with the virus without developing severe illness.

[00:17:46]Wow. So again, this is all has to be taken into the context of statistics and if we're making comparison to something like CO 19, Wuhan strain, the original strain and every strain that came after it were new viruses to us, right, that we were not exposed to had a very high R which is a measure of infect infectiousness basic basically between uh people to people with an R of like 2 to six I think for CO I can't remember right the R not of actual habirus approaches zero which means it is not a new virus it is not as highly transmissible and even though a manifestation of it which is HCPS and HPS we know those specific disease subtypes have a very high mortality rate that is not the mortality rate of an overall infection long story short stay informed stay up to date take precautions for yourself if you want to, but fear-mongering a potential 30, 40 or 50% mortality if you ever come in contact with Hansirus is is news headline.

[00:18:55]That's all it is. It's grabby. It grabs your attention. It gets you to read articles and see videos, but it's it's unfortunately not the reality or fortunately not the reality. And we're not even looking into the whole actual transmissibility between personto person, which is very low documented.

[00:19:10]And transmissibility to healthcare workers is exquisitly rare. Wow.

[00:19:16]Wow. Do your own do your own research though. Do your own research.

[00:19:23]>> Hey, this is Dr. James, board certified pediatrician. And so, let's talk Hannah virus. It's in the news. Do you need to be worried? Well, the fact that when I started medicine was when first ha virus started coming in was um one of those scary things that we had in uh southwestern United States. I was in El Paso, Texas, and they were starting to see these people that were getting diagnosed in these cabins up in New Mexico. And so, everybody got really, really excited about it. And what we've learned over the years is that hentus, although it is extremely severe, um, can cause very bad illnesses, um, it's not super widespread. Now, the thing that you're seeing in the news now that they're afraid of is that somehow it is mutated and become something that can be spread person to person. What we had seen before was that it was pretty much from a rodent, usually mice, and it was from their urine. And what would happen is they would be in the um in the buildings and the you know cabins and stuff that weren't used very much. They would pee. That pee would then dry and it would become dust. And then as you were cleaning the cabin, it would become aerosolized and then you could breathe that and then it could cause the illness. Um, usually takes, you know, like one to uh four weeks before you get sick. Um, could cause extremely bad respiratory problems and even death. So, it is a scary illness, but it's not something that's ever taken, you know, widescale uh infections. But if it became something where it could be spread person to person, well that's something that you have to worry about. So right now, would I worry? No. I would sit there and watch. Um I would, you know, if you've been exposed to anybody who um has had it or has been exposed to it, yeah, I would definitely watch, but mainly I would just watch the news and see what happens. Um these isolated cases on this um cruise ship are not anything for widespread panic. It's just something that on the news, anything that's new, exciting, and causes death, well, that gets clicks, and it's something that they can get you excited about. So, take a deep breath. I would not put it up really, really high on the scared thing. If I was going to be scared of anything right now, I'd be a lot more scared of the measles than I would be of antivirus.

[00:21:43]>> And shout out to the Spanish lady on that boat who got the tea, cuz she just gave us a list who got off that boat.

[00:21:49]Now, 23 passengers have already gotten off that boat two weeks ago, and we're just finding out about this now. Now, according to El Pas, which is a Spanish newspaper in Spain, they've reached out to somebody who is from Spain on that boat, and here's what they had to say.

[00:22:06]According to that passenger, they said 23 people had already gotten off the boat two weeks ago. We're just finding out about it now. According to that Spanish passenger who is still on the boat, I want to make that clear. That person is still on the boat. They're just talking to the Spanish publication.

[00:22:21]They said they landed at St. Elellanena on April 22nd and then they said that that's when those people got off the boat. Now, that was 10 days after the first person had passed away. So, it's understandable that those 23 people were like, "Hey, let just get me off this boat." That's understandable. Now, this is a quote directly from that Spanish passenger. They said in St. Elellanena or St. Elellanena, 23 people got off.

[00:22:46]There are 23 people going around and until three days ago, no one contacted them. So, they didn't even know that they were being well, they know now, but they didn't even know until a few days ago that they were even in contact, close contact with somebody with this virus. Now, the Spanish passenger goes on to say that while most of them are still under strict hygiene and isolation, 23 people are home. And this is who the Spanish passenger says they believe got off the boat. So they said that an Australian who went to Australia. Uh they said uh someone from Taiwan who was on the boat went to Taiwan. Americans because this affects us. Americans uh went to North America.

[00:23:24]An English lady went to England. Um and then Dutch to their home. Now remember, I think that was the person who had got sick, right? The Dutch, wasn't it? T Dutch. Okay. Well, now we know. Now the Spanish passenger said, "I don't remember. She doesn't remember if anybody from Spain was in that group of 23, but these are the people that she remembers. Now, after El Pas reached out to the World Health Organization, they said, "Yeah, we had the ship operator reach out to those people." Cuz again, that's how that guy in Lake Zurich knew to go to the hospital because they reached out to him. So hopefully he was the only case of the 23 people from that boat to get in contact with the Hunter virus. Now, that still doesn't account for the people on the plane, and we're still waiting on word to hear back. Do they know that they have come in contact with that lady? Now, if there's anything else about this Hunter virus that I find, I'm going to keep y'all posted.

[00:24:18]>> They done let them people off the boat with that virus. And there's five of them that have returned to the United States. Two in Georgia, one in Arizona, one in Virginia, and one in Texas. I think that them people should publicly tell us who they are. They should have to publicly tell us who they are. And they should be forced to quarantine until next year. All of them should be confined to their homes. Don't go nowhere. Don't touch nothing. Don't buy nothing. The government, y'all need to go ahead and send them some food and everything else and need to take care of them. We know y'all got it. Y'all pay for other stuff like child. Never mind.

[00:24:53]But anyh who, y'all need to go ahead and take care of them people. Feed them.

[00:24:57]Give them the medical attention they need all from the comfort of their home.

[00:25:00]Do not let them people leave their house. Y'all don't get to have no summer break. Them people should not be allowed to cruise. They shouldn't be allowed to leave their driveway. They shouldn't be allowed to cut their grass. Stay in the goddamn house. Don't come outside. Y'all don't come outside to next year. Matter of fact, y'all don't come outside. Take a whole year off. We'll see y'all May the 7th of next year. That's the way they That's the way they should be treated cuz come on, bro. We not about to do this [ __ ] again, man. Y'all going to let them off the boat and then here it go. They said that 24 of them got off the BOAT LIKE TWO AND A HALF WEEKS AGO.

[00:25:35]So like people been home with this [ __ ] Come on fam. Y'all whing, bro. Y'all whing. Enough is enough, man. F. We need to find out who them five people is.

[00:25:45]Come on, Tik Tok. I know y'all got some detectives. We need to find the five individuals that are in the country that was on that damn boat. We need to either we need to quarantine the people so that we can make sure that we taking care of cuz we already they talking about some personto person contact is low [ __ ] One person done from it, two people died from it. THAT'S PERSON TO PERSON. THAT'S ENOUGH FOR ME RIGHT THERE. No son, we not doing that this summer man.

[00:26:13]>> If H virus is not normally transmitted from person to person, how is it possible do you think that multiple people on the ship have the virus? Yeah, a a haunt virus outbreak on a cruise ship was not on my top 50 or even hundred things that I would worry about for a cruise ship. I and other experts really think there are three possibilities here. The first is that a bunch of folks were exposed when they were traveling off the ship. Maybe they went to a cave or to a house that had rodent droppings that got aerosolized and they all got infected there. The second possibility, which would worry me if I were a cruise ship owner, is that there were mice or other rodents on the cruise ship that were running around and exposed a bunch of folks. The third possibility, and the one that most worries folks like me, public health experts, emergency physicians, is the possibility that there could be person-toperson transmission. And Jake, here's the important part. There has been a report of one strain of haunt virus uh in Argentina known as the Andes strain which is known to cause limited person-toperson transmission. Many of us are worried that it may be that strain that got onto the boat um and that may be spreading but it's far too early to know. M m >> I'm here to tell y'all if antivirus happens, baby, get your house in order cuz the nurses are not coming to CL. All joke aside, I hope this doesn't happen cuz if this happens again, a lot of nurses, they are going to call it, myself included, I am not going through another pandemic. What are the chances of living through two pandemics?

[00:27:54]>> Crazy. in your lifetime. Covid was just what six almost seven years ago. It's been it's been a while and that was a rough time and I was a nurse through that. If you guys think that we are going to live through another pandemic and still show up how we did during co it was emotional turmoil for a lot of nurses. 10k a week that is not going to cut it this time. I'm talking about nurses are going to need like 50 [ __ ] K a week if you guys really want them to to be in the forefront again like they were. Lesson learned cuz one second we were essential workers everywhere on the internet in 2020 2021 we were the [ __ ] you know and fast forward a couple years later and we're what? We're no longer professionals and y'all think we're going to risk our life and our famil family's lives >> to do this [ __ ] again.

[00:28:47]Mm-m.

[00:28:49]>> That's a good point. Nurses, let me know in the chat.

[00:28:52]>> This is Jake Ross Marin. He is a passenger on the cruise ship that is plagued with the haunt virus. Now, he is one of the 17 passengers that is from the United States. Actually has a travel blog on IG and he had released a very tearful statement. If you haven't heard yet, the MV Honduis cruise ship that was working its way up to the African coast has been plagued with the Hunter virus.

[00:29:15]Three people have died. One is in critical condition and two other crew members are now showing signs of respiratory failure. The haunt virus is the same virus that killed Jean Hackman's wife last year in New Mexico.

[00:29:30]This virus comes from urine and feces from rats. Saying that this virus usually does not travel person to person, but they cannot confirm that at this time. They also don't know if this was an infection that was already on the cruise ship or that somebody brought in.

[00:29:48]Now, Jake did post this day one update yesterday. In that tearful statement, he said that everything on that ship felt very real and very uncertain and that people were just trying to keep themselves calm because they just wanted to get home to their families. Now, this boat is anchored off of Kate Vera. They are not allowed to dock anytime soon. We still don't have any new information on that. There's about 150 passengers on there. 17 from the US. I talked more about the people who have lost their lives on the previous video. Make sure to hit that follow button because this story is developing minuteby minute. And I'm sure we all want to know what's going to happen next and hope that everybody on board is safe.

[00:30:31]>> I thought that people been home for like two weeks though.

[00:30:35]>> Everybody keeps saying sink the boat.

[00:30:36]Sink the boat. This ain't the boat. The boat's not the problem anymore. The problem is the 23 people that got off that boat 2 weeks ago.

[00:30:43]>> See, that's what I'm saying.

[00:30:44]>> Yeah. 23 people who live across the globe, mind you, got off that boat and went on about their business, traveling, continuing trips, going to work possibly, who knows?

[00:30:56]Those 23 people carried on with their lives for the last two weeks, almost 3 weeks, and did not know that they had came in contact with this virus. Those 23 people, including the one man who's from Switzerland who is now currently hospitalized because he has the virus and took it home to his wife.

[00:31:16]Those 23 people live in Switzerland, France, the UK, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, Taiwan.

[00:31:26]The boat is no longer the problem. The spread has begun.

[00:31:31]Now we pray. Mhm.

[00:31:36]We going to see.

[00:31:37]>> Someone who wasn't on the cruise ship has haunt virus now because they took a flight with someone who was on the cruise ship.

[00:31:45]>> What?

[00:31:45]>> That's not great. At first, I kind of wrote hunto virus off as like ah it's no big deal. Whatever. It's going to be fine. It's not very transmissible. But the fact that someone just flying with someone who had hunter virus gave them havirus, I don't love it. Because the truth is haunt virus is traditionally very difficult to transmit from person to person. It's usually through rodents.

[00:32:05]And if it is person to person, it's usually like super close human contact.

[00:32:08]Not like standing next to each other, but like super close human contact. So the fact that somebody who was just on a flight with somebody who had it got it unless they were, you know, mile high in ah it's not great because from what I can gather there is not a tremendous amount of research into how transmissible this is. what the AR is.

[00:32:28]And the AR knot is essentially if you get infected, how many other people get infected because of you. From what I can find, the AR is unknown. And the fact that this is transmitting in a way that people didn't think it would, it's not great. I don't think this is going to be another pandemic. It's not going to be anywhere near as transmissible as CO, even if it is more transmissible than we thought. And the fact that they're contact tracing with the aggression level that they are right now, they'll very likely contain it. But the fact that we've gotten out of the World Health Organization and there's a lack of funding in this area, not phenomenal.

[00:33:01]>> How do we have lack of funding in this area?

[00:33:05]>> Here are some of the scariest things that people are talking about regarding the Honirus cruise ship outbreak that is causing a lot of fear and anxiety right now. And I'm here to give you some context to help decrease some of the anxiety. So by the end of this video, I hope that you will feel a little bit better about this situation. Now that being said, today is May 7th, 2026 and there are a lot of scary headlines and things are changing. But when we understand how this virus operates, it will help you understand that this is not likely going to be causing a global pandemic. Unfortunately, it is true that the case fatality rate of haunt virus is pretty high. About 40% of people who contract this infection pass away.

[00:33:47]There's no cure or vaccine for haunt virus.

[00:33:51]supportive at this time and we will hear about more cases in the coming weeks of hirus infection because it can take several weeks before people come down with symptoms and can get diagnosed. But this is not a virus that spreads that easily. Even though you hear the term humanto human transmission, it's not the same mode of transmission like you see with measles or SARS KV2. Hont virus requires very close contact with individuals like you're sleeping with somebody or you're on a cruise ship, but you need to be symptomatic to spread havirus. Not like with CO 19 where there was asymptomatic spread, meaning people were just walking around not feeling any symptoms and they were spreading it actively to people. This is very different. It is highly unlikely at this time for this virus to be able to spread like wildfire. And I've heard a lot of people say that we've heard the same story before in 2020. And yes, it was very frustrating back then because there was a lot of mixed messaging, but part of that was because we really didn't have a good understanding of SARS KV2 because it was a novel virus. It was new to us versus h virus is something we've known about for a very long time and have a much better understanding of how it's transmitted. The bottom line is that this outbreak should be taken seriously and health officials should be aggressively trying to contain it. But during this time, there's a lot of fear-based messaging that could lead to more misinformation being spread on the internet about conspiracy theories and miracle cures which could cause a lot of harm. So, the goal is not to panic here.

[00:35:27]The goal is to be able to provide accurate risk assessment about what's going on. So, make sure that you are staying informed from credible sources of information.

[00:35:38]But they still ain't got no cure.

[00:35:39]They've been knew about it. Well, >> this rabbit hole just got a lot deeper.

[00:35:43]So, if you have been following this, you will see that there's not a lot of people posting anything about it that are actually on the cruise ship. In fact, there's two people, right? That Jake guy and then there's another guy.

[00:35:57]Both of them are travel bloggers, right?

[00:36:00]They And Jake, we found out actually works for the company, which was not disclosed. Then there's this anonymous Spanish guy who um spoke to El Pis magazine. That's why we got the 23 number and all that. Right.

[00:36:15]So I'm on his page and I had saw a proposal thing where for two years he spent everywhere he traveled. He filmed himself asking will you marry me?

[00:36:26]And I was like, wait, where is this Jake guys husband, partner, fiance, whoever?

[00:36:33]There is no one from anyone's friends, families, co-workers, coaches, neighbors, their jobs, no one ab people have gone back home, no one else nor their families, friends, or anyone else they know have posted a single thing. And so I go and look and I see they even have the um he has a video and pictures of of his proposal and what he did with with the with his husband or whoever.

[00:37:06]And all these people are saying congratulations below. It's like hundreds of people, right? And it goes back, you know, it's not like new people. It's like going back old to when he did it last year. All these people, right? I go and try to check out the husband's page. It's private. I don't see anything else posted. So then I go into the comments just the people congratulating him because obviously some of them are like more personal messages like I'm so happy for you guys.

[00:37:33]This is a dream come true for you finally all that. So I'm thinking that they're personal. They know them.

[00:37:40]I start clicking on these people's names. I go and see their most recent post. Nearly all of them are in photography or some type of travel panagonia, that type of thing. some posting four days ago, living their best life, no word about Jake or the cruise.

[00:37:58]um 3 days ago, 2 days ago. I even have one 4 hours ago posting a girls trip and other things and traveling and having fun and not a word about their friend who made national news crying about being stuck on this cruise ship with a deadly virus that has a 40 to 50% mortality rate.

[00:38:22]And no one else, none of the people went home, none of the people who have died, none of the crews family, friends, not a single person has said a word. Do you find that strange?

[00:38:33]>> So what are you saying?

[00:38:35]>> I find that very strange amongst other things.

[00:38:39]>> So what is she saying? What what is she saying then?

[00:38:43]>> Okay, as one of the few doctors on this app that is probably taking care of a patient with haunt virus, I thought I'd give a little perspective. Havirus, bad news. There's a couple big problems with treating patients with haunt virus. The first is the incubation period is like 2 to 3 weeks long. They're walking around for quite a while already infected not knowing what's coming and their initial presentation can be pretty benign.

[00:39:04]Fever, cough, stomach ache, and there's no reason to suspect anything worse until suddenly their lungs are filling up with fluid and their kidneys are failing. So, I treated my patient with haunt virus when I was a resident. I was a secondyear resident in the pediatric ICU at University of New Mexico Hospital. Since we pulled patients from all over New Mexico, parts of Arizona, Texas, and principally the four corners area, a known area to have haunt virus present. When we had a patient show up with those mild symptoms that suddenly turned very dramatic, haunt virus has to be on your differential diagnosis.

[00:39:34]Anytime you're taking care of a patient with haunt, you immediately need to transfer them to a higher level of care in order to have ECMO available. ECMO is the machine that actually bypasses your heart and lungs because often times those parts of your body are failing.

[00:39:46]The machine will actually take your blood, pump it, oxygenate it, and then put it back into your body for you while allowing those organs to rest. And there's a decent chance that if you get HANA virus, you will end up on ECMO.

[00:39:58]Even if you don't, there's a huge chance that you're going to be in pulmonary failure, meaning intubation and respiratory support for quite a long time. And there's no other treatment besides supportive treatment for hontoirus at this time. Luckily, the child that I took care of actually did very well, only needed a little bit of CPAP, didn't need to be intubated, and didn't end up on ECMO. But with this HANA virus outbreak on a cruise ship, is this going to be a problem for the rest of us in the world? Probably not. Hunter virus has been known about and cared for for many, many decades. Outside of isolated outbreaks, there's never been a large pandemic of haunt virus.

[00:40:32]Gratefully so. Partially because the people who get it become so very sick, it's hard for them to continue to spread it. Also because there's very few variants of the virus that actually have shown to have humanto human transmission. Even though there is some current suspicion that the current strain that's circulating on said cruise ship is the Andes strain that could have some persontoperson transmission. And the original patients that came down with haunt virus were going in Argentina before they boarded the cruise ship which means they had a known exposure to that same strain. Potential for a worldwide outbreak extremely low. It is a good reminder that scary diseases do exist even if you've never heard of them. at taking care of kids with bachelism, taking care of kids with bubonic plague, as well as many other wild and crazy diseases that most people have not heard of except for in books.

[00:41:16]Hopefully, you never will.

[00:41:20]>> Man, this is very informative.

[00:41:22]>> How likely is it that haunt virus is going to cause an epidemic? Not very likely at all. My name is Dr. Ross Newman. I'm a human physiologist and board-certified pediatrician and probably one of the few doctors on this app who has actually treated a patient with haunt virus. I made a quite popular video yesterday stating that the likelihood of haunt virus being a problem to most Americans was extremely low. Since a lot of people are still concerned that since this is the Andes strain of the haunt virus and has concerns for persontoperson transmission that this could be more dangerous than I'm making out to be. Let me reassure you with some studies that that is likely not the case. See haunt virus unlike corona virus is nothing new. Have decades of research and we even have recent outbreaks that we've been able to study in order to see how transmissible it is. even the Andes form. Even as recently as 2018 to 2019, we had a large outbreak in Argentina where some spreaders did go to large social events and spread the virus resulting in 34 confirmed infections and 11 deaths. But just because something is spread from person to person doesn't mean it's all spread equally. Many viruses that are spread person to person are spread via different mechanisms. Some can be aerosolized through boogers or saliva.

[00:42:31]Some are through intercourse. Some are through transmission of blood. Some are what we call a fecal oral route or poop.

[00:42:37]Not all of these have the same infectious rate. Example, it is much harder to spread hepatitis B than it is measles. And we do have studies showing the contagiousness of differently bodily fluids with haunt virus, specifically the Andes strain. First and most reassuring is this study which looked at 476 people exposed to 76 confirmed and strained haunt virus infections that showed that only 1.2% 2% of household contacts had a spread of personto person of haunt virus versus 17.6 of sexual partners. Even if you're having very very close intimate contact with exchange of fluids, less than 1 in five will become infected. And if you're living in the same house as them, less than 2% become infected. This study looked at how much virus was contained in saliva and it didn't show any active virus in the saliva. So we're not sure it can be spread that way. And this study looked at the presence of haunt virus specifically Andy's strain in the breast milk raising the potential of maternal to child transmission through the breast milk. So yes there is potential for persontoerson spread but haunt virus is not nearly as infectious as some other viruses that we are commonly seeing even right now with measles. So even if you're exposed to somebody on a plane or somebody serves you food, the chance of them infecting you is extremely unlikely. Which is why I will say again, it is extremely unlikely that haunt virus will become a pandemic that anybody especially the United States has to have significant concern about. This virus has been around a long time. It's not new. It traditionally spreads as you mentioned from contact with rodents. So mice and rats, um people who in rural areas of the southwest, you tend to see cases, but it's contact with rodents, specifically their saliva, their blood, if they bite you or if you come into contact with their feces or their urine.

[00:44:27]It does not typically spread person to person. So it's never been considered a major pathogen for people to be concerned about. There is one strain from South America in Argentina that has been known to spread personto person.

[00:44:40]This does turn out to be that strain.

[00:44:42]However, even with this particular strain, the person-toperson spread is relatively uncommon. So even though it's possible, it's relatively uncommon.

[00:44:51]>> So we now have our first suspected case of hivirus in someone who wasn't on the cruise ship. So what we know is that a passenger with hivirus got off the ship early before they knew the virus was spreading there and took a flight to South Africa where she later died. The Spanish authorities now say someone else on that flight has developed symptoms and they've been quarantined in a hospital in Alakanti in Spain and they're currently being tested to see whether or not it is indeed hivirus. It does of course raise the question of exactly how contagious this strain of the disease really is despite the fact the World Health Organization still insists the risk to the public is low.

[00:45:36]Meanwhile, the cruise ship is currently heading towards the Canary Islands in Spain, where a huge row has erupted about whether or not to accept the ship uh and allow passengers to disembark >> uh before we know enough about this virus and exactly how it spreads.

[00:45:54]>> This stuff, I don't know what to believe, man. I don't know.

[00:45:57]>> Dr. Inflammation back again now for another update on Hivirus. It's been 24 hours since I posted the last video. So what new has developed? Well, the WHO today described that there have been so far eight cases uh five of which were confirmed via testing and three patients who died. The other things that we also need to understand about this is with regards to incubation periods. Um it said that some sources say incubation periods of anywhere of 1 week to two weeks all the way up to 8 weeks. Um and that does make things a bit complicated when it comes to exposures. And one thing that's been in the news that is really being closely watched is the fact that um there were three people on the KM Dutch flight um who are actively being surveiled. Uh two of which uh their their lab tests for the virus have come back negative and a third that's still pending. And within that um there has been reports that one of them is a flight attendant who may have potentially come in contact with one of the patients who actually died uh who was on who's on board the flight for about an hour um very briefly. Um however she's currently in a hospital although she's current it's not been reported whether or not she's uh presenting with any symptoms at this moment. So there's still not much clarity behind that particular case. Um the the real reason why this is so important is because if this uh if it does come to fruition that um this person may be uh experiencing symptoms and they had a very close contact but for a very brief moment.

[00:47:31]>> You know this may potentially challenge what we have thought with regards to the nature of this virus requiring very prolonged exposures in order to have a proper humanto human transmission. Um but we can't speak to any more of that until we get more information.

[00:47:47]So far in the United States um there are five people who are currently being surveiled by local health authorities in conjunction with the CDC uh for suspected exposures to hivirus in states like California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia and Virginia. So far again these are people who have who are being uh observed. None of them are confirmed cases and so far they are asymptomatic.

[00:48:12]Now although all of this information is still starting to evolve, you know, if you look at many other creators who are biologists who are far more experts than I am in this particular field, many of them are speaking with a little bit more of a tone of less concern. And part of the reason why is really based in their knowledge regarding the um the genetic constraints of something like the Andian viral strain. Although compared to some of the other forms of antivirus and that this does have more of a capability of being transmitted from human to human, it does seem over the last 22 years that there's been very slow uh genetic evolution to really make it a virus that has a much higher capability of being transmitted very quickly. Obviously, this is all based off of previously known knowledge and this is why we have to continue to observe this and continue to see how this evolves. Um, but you know, I think you should continue to take all of these necessary precautions as I had already outlined in the previous video. Gonna keep watching this as it goes and hopefully things get contained as quickly as possible and so that we can avoid having something like a pandemic. Um, hope this helps.

[00:49:22]>> A virus with a death rate higher than COVID spread on a cruise ship in the Atlantic. So, the question now everyone is asking is, should we be worried?

[00:49:30]Well, here's what happened. The MV Hondas, a Dutch expedition ship that left Argentina weeks ago, is at the center of a confirmed hont virus outbreak that has killed three people and left nearly 150 passengers isolated in their cabins. Right now, the ship is about 600 nautical miles from Spain's Canary Islands. But when it gets there, it may not be able to dock. Officials in Tennere say the ship must stay offshore, and port workers say they haven't even been told what safety measures are in place. But here's where it gets even more complicated. Before Honda virus was even suspected, nearly 30 passengers from at least 12 countries, including six Americans, left the ship at an early port stop with no contact tracing.

[00:50:11]Global health officials are now scrambling to find them all. Those Americans are scattered across Arizona, Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and California. That's what we know so far.

[00:50:20]So, no Americans are reporting symptoms currently, but the CDC is working with the WHO and the State Department to monitor every single one of them. This specific strain at the center of this outbreak is called the Andes virus. It's a form of haunt virus that, unlike most strains, can spread between people through close contact. That's part of why the WHO is paying such close attention and why passengers could potentially be forced to remain at sea for up to 2 months as they wait out the quarantine period. The incubation period for this virus can potentially take up to 8 weeks. But a major caveat here, this disease is difficult to spread on a large scale. According to infectious disease experts, they say that persontoperson transmission can only happen through prolonged close contact, like living with someone. For those 150 people still on the ship, the question of when they get to go home still very much unanswered. Dr. John Leuke is here right now, our very own CBS News doctor.

[00:51:16]So, how concerned should people be?

[00:51:18]>> Well, you know, the WHO said today that the risk to the general public is low.

[00:51:22]Now, I know that's triggering for some people, right? Because they're thinking, "Oh my gosh, is this CO? Is this uh, you know, do we have to worry about a pandemic?" This is totally different than CO. And the reason is that the virus that causes it is something that we've known for 30 years. The virus that caused COVID was a brand new virus. It was SARS KV2. We didn't know anything about it. Now, you have to be humble here because you always have to put an asterisk and say things could change.

[00:51:48]We're at the beginning of this. There are relatively few number of people who were exposed. Uh what's going to happen in the next incubation period, which could be about 6 weeks. Are people going to pop up uh with evidence of being infected?

[00:52:00]>> This Hans virus situation that's going on on that cruise ship is more serious than people think and it's starting to look a little similar to what happened in 2020. You have a ship filled with 149 people who could possibly be infected by the virus. Mind you, you had three people pass away. And one of those people that passed away, a 70-year-old Dutch man, was with his wife when he passed away. This man's wife took a flight from St. Helena to Johannesburg airport. Mind you, this flight was a commercial flight.

[00:52:33]>> What does that mean? That means that this virus that's not usually airborne, which is airborne now, had a possibility of being contracted by more people that was on that commercial flight. Mind you, this woman was sick as well. Mind you, they did not tell this woman to leave.

[00:52:51]This lady left on her own to ride back with her husband's body. Now, if you remember, Cape Ver wasn't going to let this ship dock. So, now this ship is going to the Canary Islands. And when it gets to the Canary Island, they're supposed to clean the ship. I don't know if they're letting anybody off this ship. But Spain said it was okay for this ship to come to Canary Island. But I don't think y'all understand how serious this [ __ ] can get. They're saying that this virus has a 9 week quarantine period. And also, the mortality rate of this virus is 40%.

[00:53:29]That don't sound scary to you? The question we need to ask is how did that virus mutate that way? Again, this [ __ ] is way more serious than they're saying it is.

[00:53:41]Pay attention.

[00:53:42]>> Honda virus is a zonatic disease. Um, which that means it it can be spread from animals to humans.

[00:53:48]>> Rodents like mice carry the virus.

[00:53:50]Humans who come into contact with an infected rodent or even their feces and urine can catch it.

[00:53:56]>> It's not typically one mouse. A lot of times we see um heavy rodent exposure um and it is a family of virus as well. So there are um multiple haunt viruses and different rodents can actually carry different types of haunt viruses.

[00:54:08]>> Infection can lead to two deadly diseases. One impacts the lungs with symptoms including fatigue, fever and muscle aches. The second impacts the kidneys causing headaches, stomach pain and fever. So, that's why it's really important, you know, if you are um having some type of symptoms, it's always best to reach out to your doctor um or your medical provider and letting them know if you have any sort of recent travel exposure or known rodent exposure.

[00:54:31]>> Check out this map from the CDC. It shows recorded cases from 1993 to 2023.

[00:54:37]There are only two listed for Minnesota and just five for Wisconsin. It's more of an issue for states in the Southwest like New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona where a drier climate might help it spread. The rodents that we have don't have the same level of haunt virus disease as the rodents in um the western United States.

[00:54:56]>> Still, you do want to be careful if you find mouse droppings around your house, specifically with how you clean them up.

[00:55:02]First, don't use a vacuum. This can just stir the feal particles into the air for you to breathe, which is how people catch haunt virus. Instead, put on some gloves and grab a wet paper towel or rag. Wipe up the droppings and throw them away. Maybe even wear a mask if you're in an area with poor ventilation.

[00:55:22]>> Hont virus is less likely to become pandemic um than other viruses is because it's so deadly. And so that might sound counterintuitive, but because once you develop symptoms, the progression is so fast. About a third or 40% of people uh may die from haunt virus. you're unable to spread it widely because you just don't live long enough to do so. Hont virus is a family of viruses and the specific member of that family that we're talking about is called the Andes virus. So Andes virus uh is different from other haunt viruses in that this is the one haunt virus that has been shown to transmit from person to person. Typically haunt virus transmits uh as a result of exposure to rodent so rat or mouse uh urine or droppings people get infected when they're cleaning up after rodents. So where we typically see haunt virus is in very dry aid regions. So in the United States most of that has been in the four corners area. So Colorado, New Mexico um west of the Mississippi in particular with Andes virus. Andes virus uh circulates in parts of uh Argentina and Chile. It requires prolonged and close contact of a much more intimate level of contact. Um so for example a husband and wife who sleep together who might kiss.

[00:56:41]Uh not to say that this is sexually transmitted but it's that level of much closer contact. There are no antivirals uh for haunt virus. There are no vaccines for haunt virus. Hont virus attacks the lining of small blood vessels making them leak. And when those blood vessels leak, you have extra fluid in air spaces in the lungs. The virus infects the kidneys. In addition, the heart can also be affected um which can lead to heart failure. Unless you have had direct contact, close contact with somebody who was a passenger on that cruise ship, it's highly unlikely um that you're going to be affected by this current cluster, this current outbreak.

[00:57:21]And I think one really important piece of data will come in when the flight attendant uh who was exposed to one of the passengers who uh has was later diagnosed with haunt virus. If that flight attendant tests positive for haunt virus, that would be a sign that more casual transmission occurs. But so far we don't have that data and we don't have any evidence that that is the case.

[00:57:45]This haunt virus cluster on the cruise ship is a scientific story, a public health systems story and a human interest story. It is not a panic, it's a pandemic story at all. Earlier this year, the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization. And I think this this kind of cluster uh illustrates the importance of being a member. The US would be deploying people from the CDC, experts from the CDC to be assisting with the outbreak investigation, but they are not participating in the way that they normally would, which does leave leave us somewhat flatfooted in our ability to respond.

[00:58:20]>> All right, squad, that was another Tik Tok compilation. Man, look, if you made it this far, you a real one for real.

[00:58:26]Make sure you put that in the comments.

[00:58:27]But this right here, a lot of people is talking about it. Y'all let me know what y'all think about this in the in the in the comments. Bro, for my nurses out there, for my nurses, they said y'all going to be moving differently if we was to have to get to that point. Let me know. He said 10K ain't going to be enough. It's going to have to be 50 a week. Y'all let me know, man. But be safe out there, man. Till next time, man. Self love and positivity. Fire Squad, I got you and you know it.