Hantavirus UPDATE: Health Officials WARN Of Dangerous Variants

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Health officials today are more concerned about the haunt virus than they have been over the previous several days. And it's because of one main thing. We'll talk about that in a moment. But we are now starting to see more people are coming forward saying that they believe they have the haunt virus and now there are 41 possible infections. I want to show you something. says honto virus fe fears spark covid flashbacks but experts say there's one major difference Dr. Mark Seagull says haunt virus hasn't mutated and is very difficult to transmit.

[00:00:45]That's the difference. Okay. The Andes virus or the Andes strain of the haunt virus that is the one that transmit from person to person. That's what everyone's looking at. But just like with COVID, the longer it is in our systems, the more people that get it that uh the just the way that it can mutate. Well, this is the fear is that as more people get this, it has a potential to spread but also mutate. I want to play something for you. Listen to this.

[00:01:21]>> There are serious fears a mutated generation 3 havirus case has emerged.

[00:01:26]potentially signifying the first stage of a wider outbreak of the deadly ratorn disease. Samples from a quarantined Italian man are currently being tested.

[00:01:35]He boarded a flight alongside a woman who later died from the virus after leaving the infected MV Hondius cruise ship. As it stands, there have been no confirmed cases in people who were not on board the ship. But if this man tests positive, it means the disease is far more contagious than health experts initially thought.

[00:01:54]>> That's part of the issue.

[00:01:56]Okay, that if this person tests positive, that means it's far more contagious and that's the concern. And again, I bring this up because everyone's saying, okay, certain health officials are saying that, well, there is no risk here, but there is a risk.

[00:02:15]It's a low risk. The threat is very minimal at this time, but it's still a threat. And according to other officials that don't want to be named, the problem that they have is that yes, the threat today is very minimal because we don't have a lot of positive cases. But if all of a sudden we start getting more people testing positive due to the fact that the incubation period can be up to 8 weeks th this is the issue that these people that are that are you know in the vicinity they're saying if and these are rough numbers but they say if you are within six feet of somebody that is positive for the haunt virus for about 15 minutes then you could contract the virus yourself. That's if they have the Andy string. Well, here's the issue.

[00:03:11]Some experts again who don't want to be named say that all it takes is one or two people to during the incubation period to uh test positive and then that changes the entire game. Right now, there's 41 people that are being monitored. Okay. says right here, "No known cases of haunt virus in the United States as officials monitor 41 with possible exposure." It says, "The sole American who returned a positive test aboard the MVAS has since tested negative three times, bringing the total number of reported cases down to 10.

[00:03:52]Okay. So, again, good news that the person tested positive but now has tested negative three different times. I don't know if that's three days in a row. I don't know if that's, you know, several days in between. Again, don't know. But we now have 41 possible exposure cases.

[00:04:16]This is where those experts that don't want to be named are saying that this is the real concern that we have to get past the incubation period and then only then we can be sure that yes we have figured it out. We have eliminated this virus and it will not cause us any problems. But again, this is eight weeks after, okay, the initial cases after exposure. This means that this is likely going to be sometime in the middle of June. Okay, that we're we still need another month to figure this out. Yeah, that's the issue. I'll play another clip for you, though. Although health officials say that the risk of a larger spread remains small, there is concern about the growing number of individuals who are exposed to people who did not quarantine.

[00:05:11]>> The number of people being monitored for HANA virus here in the US is now up to 41 according to the CDC. That includes 18 passengers from the cruise ship Mbhandias being monitored in Nebraska and Georgia and seven who left the ship before the outbreak was declared. On Thursday, we learned of 16 people who may have been exposed during flights with one symptomatic passenger of the Hondas. Their exact travel routes and current locations remain unclear. But there is some good news. Dr. Steven Kornfeld, a passenger who helped care for sick patients on the ship, has been transferred from the bioontainment unit to quarantine at Okay, so at least there's some good news that he went from the bioontainment unit, which is uh even more strict, more secure to the quarantine unit. So that's that's good news, but again, it's still a an issue.

[00:06:08]Now, why are we even talking about this?

[00:06:11]Right. This is one of the the comments that I get uh I've been getting a little bit lately is, you know, a lot of people are appreciative of the fact that I'm actually spending some time talking about this before it uh turns into a massive uh global story. Do I think it's going to turn into a massive global story? I don't think so. And I sure hope not. Okay. But if it does, at least people are knowing that what some of these issues are. And and one of the big ones right now is the incubation period.

[00:06:44]It's not about, you know, that uh it has a, you know, potentially 20 to 40% mortality rate. It's not the fact that, you know, it can be transmitted from person to person if it's the Andes strain. The two questions number one is how does this incubation period affect us? Because according to some experts they say during the incubation period you cannot infect another person. But again we don't have enough studies we don't have enough uh you know we can't back it by science because we just don't have enough information.

[00:07:22]That's one of the concerns. The other one again just the incubation period is how do we fix this? How do we you know assure the American people or people around the world that in during the incubation period you are safe. It's not until you actually experience symptoms again. But it all comes down to we need to test more people. We need to ensure that we have the the proper procedures in place. Is isolation enough? Do we need to uh make sure they have some type of a vaccine? Right. Again, bunch of questions here, but this is what I want to leave you with. Okay.

[00:08:06]Are we uh should we be concerned about this turning into a global pandemic? The answer as of right now, again, still early on, is no. Based off what we learned during COVID, the United States, at least what we're doing right now, should be enough to eliminate this this threat. What Spain is doing by quarantining these people for like six weeks or eight weeks, that right there is more than enough. So, based off what we learned during the previous pandemic, what we're doing today should be enough to eliminate this threat. But it doesn't mean that we will not see more cases. It just means there likely will not be a global spread. If we see anything, it would be certain localized outbreaks.

[00:09:00]That's what we're hearing from experts.

[00:09:01]That's the the common phrase is localized outbreaks would be the worstc case scenario. So, we'll see what happens moving forward, but that is what we know as of today. So, again, thank you guys for watching. Consider subscribing and I'll see you guys on the next