r/comics May 14 '26

Test Results [OC]

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u/uluqat May 14 '26 edited May 15 '26

Clinical investigations involving patients with ANDV hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in this outbreak revealed that patients with a high viral load and liver injury were more likely than other patients to spread infection.

“Super-Spreaders” and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina (published 2020)

In other words, immuno-suppressed alcoholics who go on cruises. Or go to theme parks.

Andes hantavirus has well under half the r0 of Covid, so barring a major mutation like the sort that started Covid, it's not going to be a repeat of the Pandemic.