The word "mild", twice in one headline. Looks like the #Media is already panicking -

Dr. Robyn Reed was my family doctor in 🇿🇦 South Africa. A cautionary tale for all those experts currently dismissing #Hantavirus. Sometimes we just don't know what we don't know. #PrecautionaryPrinciple youtu.be/sAlDxDOrnhI?...

"Reinfection Raises Long COVID Risk in Children and Adolescents" "Children and adolescents who are reinfected with SARS-CoV-2 face a significantly higher risk of developing long COVID, according to a large, multi-institutional study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases."

Classic! 😂

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1/ Sounds good on a sticker sold in #Carcross, #Yukon -

1/ Just a reminder that "public panic" is myth. Governments, global #PublicHealth, & @who.int need to focus on controlling infections rather than controlling the narrative of infections, like last time - bsky.app/profile/jvip...

Hantavirus Definitely Probably Not A Serious Threat Maybe

"Misinformation leads to confusion, division, & false beliefs, but why are people vulnerable to believing & sharing it?" * Especially, governments & science communicators ignoring an #OngoingPandemic; & @ipaccanada.bsky.social & @cmadocs.bsky.social ignoring #Airborne transmission. Hard to say 🙄

Ditto 👇

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1/ An (inadvertently) instructive article on health risk in 2026, how we are normalizing it because of politicians & capitalism, while ignoring the human manufactured climate change causing much of it, (as well ignoring as an #OngoingPandemic, not unrelated) - www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1/ "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya Angelou * With the current, #OngoingPandemic. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

On the headline alone, my comment. The risk of a pandemic never pertains to only one country. We are in this up to our eyeballs one way or another… together.

Passengers without symptoms are currently considered to be high-risk contacts as a precautionary measure. They will be repatriated for self-quarantine in their home country using specially arranged transport by their respective countries ...They will not use regular commercial flights":

#Airlink is also reaching out to the passengers from that flight, advising them to contact 🇿🇦 South Africa’s Department of Health at +27 (0) 76 273 41 55 or via email at [email protected] - businesstech.co.za/news/lifesty...

Scientators In No Rush To Decide Whether To Recommend Catching Or Avoiding Hantavirus

1/ There's "Always a danger it heightens the perception of the situation being more dangerous than it is". ☝️No. Good #PublicHealth engages the public honestly, without patronizing & infantilizing them. Be frank about the knowns/unknowns, & commit to erring on the side of caution.

Public Health Authorities Opt For ‘The Hard Way’ To Determine How Transmissible Andes Hantavirus Is

The Sick Times: 'A test for Long COVID can’t leave anyone behind' Written by W. Michael Brode '..Brode, MD, is an internal medicine doctor and researcher in Austin, Texas, who cares for people with Long COVID...' thesicktimes.org/2026/05/08/a...

As one of the only newsrooms still reporting on the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we often get questions from readers about finding and interpreting data on COVID-19 and other pathogens. We hosted a free webinar to answer those questions! Watch the full event now! bit.ly/4niNHhF

#Hantavirus "tends to be more severe in immunocompromised individuals overall & can easily lead to death, particularly the strains that lead to HPS in HFRS in the majority of cases". Now add 6+ years of #COVID #Reinfections & associated immune dysregulation - my.klarity.health/the-impact-o...

Not now cute little hantavirus not now, Covid amnesia, Long Covid advocates demand biological research, and more open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

A useful resource on #Airborne transmission of pathogens, courtesy of @jmcrookston.bsky.social -

1/ Say NO 🇨🇦🦏🇨🇦 @mark-carney.bsky.social @juliedabrusin.bsky.social @sheljcanada.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/heal...

1/ Just no, @thelancet.com - #LongCOVID

Long COVID is not pale poets dying beautifully. It is unread emails, shower stools, heart-rate alerts, brain fog, canceled plans, disability forms, compression socks, and people who "look fine".

#LongCOVID goes mainstream 👇

WHO Suggests Some Kind Of World Health Organisation To Address Emerging Global Health Threats Like Hantavirus

1/ Medical (& political) careers are made of studies & reports on what needs to be done. On paper, it always sounds like change is coming. But the problem is, it somehow never does -

1/ As usual, #PublicHealth, aided by #MSM, is spending more energy controlling the narrative than controlling actual infections. As usual, (non-existent) "public panic" is receiving more attention than the prospect of another pandemic (on top of the #COVID pandemic, that PH has yet to control) -

1/ Thanks to pulmonologist, ICU physician, & #LongCOVID expert, #Dr.WesEly - my parents in 🇿🇦 South Africa (both of whom are in their 80s) finally grasp the enormity of #COVID. It only took 6+ years, owing to egregious public health messaging - www.facebook.com/share/v/1Dfz...

As a Medical Microbiologist (now retired) trained and experienced in working with Biological Safety Level 3 (BSL 3) pathogens, such as Hanta virus, I would strongly disagree with the WHO in their recommendation that a medical mask is sufficient protection! Need N95 as minimum, N99 or PAPR better.

1/ "When a 70-year-old Dutch man, one of the birders, died aboard on April 11, Kornfeld & the others were shaken but considered the incident a freak accident, with no implications for anyone else on board" - www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

A KLM flight attendant who was in close proximity to one of the deceased is now in the hospital with symptoms. All passengers from the Hantavirus cruise should be quarantined and carefully screened. Instead, they’ve been allowed to take commercial flights home. We’ve learned absolutely nothing.

A science journalist who refers to the #COVID pandemic in the past tense, & who disparages the COVID-conscious community as "Covid Truthers" - all while banging on about misinformation - tells you not to worry. Reply: We're not worried, we wear masks ( #N95s) & #CleanTheAir. Not rocket science 🚀

Note that close contact behavior does not rule out transmission by inhalation of virus. Hantavirus load in exhaled respiratory particles may be low, or virus may not survive well, so extended exposure duration is required. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hantavirus Only A Risk To Those At Risk From Hantavirus, Says CDC

This 👇

@mvankerkhove.bsky.social, when you confidently say of #Hantavirus, "This is not the next #Covid" - may we remind you that if you treat it the same way you treated COVID (with denial, misinformation, & trademark @who.int overconfidence), then you increase the chance that it could be the next COVID.

1/ Apparently, we've learnt nothing about how to get ahead of nascent pandemics - "Hantavirus typically has a 10- to 20-day incubation period": www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...

1/ A "monster El Niño will give us at least a brief preview of a hotter & more chaotic world — a 2027 like we might’ve expected to see in 2035, & which not that long ago didn’t seem likely before 2050. 'Prepare for bedlam'" - Via @doctorvive.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...

Remember how it goes - at first #PublicHealth will be over this, careers will be made, contact-tracing will trend - until they wander off, tell you not to worry, it's endemic now, you'll just have to learn to live with it, assess your own risk, & stop wearing masks, it's triggering for others...

@chimpvsdog.bsky.social is an excellent account to follow for those disappointed in how legacy/corporate/mainstream #Media have failed to defend democracy, while #EditorialCartoonists have risen to the challenge of our grim zeitgeist. * The same applies to cartoonists in an #OngoingPandemic -

1/ Remember Folks, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" (Franklin D. Roosevelt) - www.bbcmaestro.com/courses/owen...

1/ "The #YukonNews asked #OneYukon how its wastewater data is shared with international agencies & how sampling at the Marwell lift station is used in global comparisons, but the organization did not respond to the request". yukon-news.com/2026/05/06/w...

Exactly 👇 “We want biomarkers, not yoga!” @mileswgriffis.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2026/05/05/l...

Yes, handwashing saves lives — but airborne diseases need clean indoor air too! Ventilation and filtration protect everyone. 'Save Lives: Clean the Air.' Effective infection prevention requires environmental design, not just personal action! www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/handwas...

1/ Thanks to 6+ years of an #OngoingPandemic, that the 🇨🇦 government chose to ignore, many Canadians are now sicker & poorer. And "upwards of one in five people in Canada have not taken prescribed medication because it was too expensive" -