yay!

Then after some of the most beautiful, moving and ethereal music you've ever heard in your life, she told everyone how she had two rivers of sweat running down her thighs trying to escape from her asshole, and also that she'd been trying to make a baby with herself for a while which hadn't been very successful but she was having a fucking excellent time with it.

You cannot eat MONEY, oh no (1/?)

Along with some....rather sensational fear mongering about this being a new pandemic or whatever.

Let's clear a few things up.

Person to person spread is suuuuuper rare with hantavirus. it basically requires direct contact with infected rodent urine, feces, or saliva.

Now, SOME news stories are making the claim that the Andes Variant can have person to person transmission. HOWEVER, despite these claims popping up often, evidence is limited- there's 1 paper that looked at a cluster of 3 cases of the Andes strain in 2014 which indicated that 1 of the cases might have been a person to person transmission.

HOWEVER a more recent metastudy that found no real evidence of human to human transmission in the Andes variant. So if it's happens, it's VERY rare

And for the record, this is what the WHO is officially saying:

Further investigations are ongoing. The outbreak is being managed through coordinated international response, and includes in-depth investigations, case isolation and care, medical evacuation and laboratory investigations. Human hantavirus infection is primarily acquired through contact with the urine, faeces, or saliva of infected rodents. It is a rare but severe disease that can be deadly. Although uncommon, limited human to human transmission has been reported in previous outbreaks of Andes virus (a specific species of hantavirus). WHO currently assesses the risk to the global population from this event as low and will continue to monitor the epidemiological situation and update the risk assessment.

Now, apparently today in a press conference, someone from WHO said they are looking into whether person to person transmission is responsible, which is what's creating all these scary sounding headlines. It's a possibility, they are looking into it. Ok.

But given that the incubation period can be weeks long, only 3 cases here have been lab verified, and these folks have been on an international luxury nature cruise for 5 weeks now...I think there's a lot of possible explanations (shared exposure event, contaminated food, etc), and even IF this is a rare confirmation of actual person to person transmission, it would be one the requires prolonged and very close contact.... it's definitely not a new pandemic. It's not new covid. It's not new flu. It's just not.

So. Please. Be thoughtful if you see this story going around. Follow any updates back to the source.

This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.

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