
Hantavirus and Bored Billionaires
By now you've heard about the MV Hondius — the luxury expedition cruise ship that departed Argentina on April 1st (an omen), visited some of the most remote islands on earth that haven't even been fully rendered on Google Maps, and returned with three deaths, eleven confirmed cases of the Andes strain of hantavirus, and passengers currently being monitored in biocontainment units at Emory University Hospital and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The CDC has classified it a Level 3 emergency. The incubation period is 42 days. And people in the comments were asking if there were still…
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