The CDC Quietly Changed What They’re Saying About Hantavirus

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]Here's your Hantavirus update from May 13th at 7:00 a.m. French woman in Paris is now on ECMO. That's a machine that circulates your blood through an artificial lung when your heart and lungs start to fail. Doctors are calling it a severe variant of the illness.

[00:00:13]Meanwhile, the CDC after days of saying the Hantavirus is not easily transmitted, they quietly updated their language. A new phrase, may spread more easily than previously expected. That's a significant change. Origin theory also updated the landfill bird watch story, ruled out. WHO now believes exposure happened weeks before boarding somewhere in Argentina or Chile's Andes region. 12 hospital workers in Netherlands are in 6-week quarantine after a protocol breach treating a crew member.

[00:00:38]Minnesota, Seattle, Maryland, California, those states keep are getting added to the monitoring list.

[00:00:43]And in Winnebago County, Illinois, a potential Hantavirus case is under investigation with no connection to the cruise ship whatsoever. So right now, official count 11 cases, three deaths, seven countries. The watch window runs till June 17th. Follow for more daily updates.