00:00It's very much, we hope, under control.
00:03It was the ship, and I think we're going to make
00:06a full report about it tomorrow.
00:07We have a lot of people.
00:09It's a lot of great people studying it.
00:10It should be fine.
00:12We hope.
00:12The Pressure is a former president.
00:14I'm also with ABC News.
00:15Can I think about the virus?
00:16Have you been briefed on the virus?
00:18The President is a former president.
00:19Can you tell us what you've learned in the briefing?
00:20The President is a former president.
00:21Well, I think you're going to be told everything,
00:23and you already have.
00:25It's very much, we hope, under control.
00:28It was the ship, and I think we're going to make
00:31a full report about it tomorrow.
00:33We have a lot of people.
00:34It's a lot of great people studying it.
00:36It should be fine.
00:37We hope.
00:37The Pressure is concerned that it would spread,
00:40and how are you hoping to get the
00:40The President is concerned.
00:40I hope not.
00:41I mean, I hope not.
00:42We'll do the best we can, yeah.
00:43We're prepared, and we're doing a great job with it,
00:46and it will go away.
00:47Just stay calm.
00:48It will go away.
00:49We want to protect our shipping industry,
00:51our cruise industry, cruise ships.
00:53We want to protect our airline industry.
00:55Very important.
00:57But everybody has to be vigilant and has to be careful.
01:00But be calm.
01:01It's really working out, and a lot of good things
01:04are going to happen.
01:05The consumer is ready.
01:06The consumer is so powerful in our country
01:08with what we've done with tax cuts and regulation cuts
01:11and all of those things.
01:12The consumer has never been in a better position
01:16than they are right now.
01:17So a lot of good things are going to happen.
01:34A cruise ship, 147 passengers, a deadly virus that kills up
01:41to 50% of the people it infects.
01:43And right now, people from that ship are back home in the United States, Arizona, California, Georgia.
01:51This is not a movie.
01:53This is happening in May 2026.
01:56And the virus in question, it makes COVID's death rate look small.
02:01Meet Hantavirus, and why health officials are watching very, very carefully.
02:07The MV Hondias, a Dutch expedition cruise ship, departed Ushuaia, Argentina in early April 2026,
02:15on what was supposed to be a dream voyage.
02:18Antarctica, South Georgia, remote Atlantic islands.
02:23147 people aboard, passengers and crew, from 23 different countries, including Americans.
02:30But somewhere along the route, something invisible came aboard, too.
02:34By April 6th, a 70-year-old Dutch man had a fever, headache, and mild stomach trouble.
02:41Five days later, he was dead.
02:43Respiratory failure.
02:44On a ship with nowhere to go.
02:47His wife fell ill next.
02:49She was evacuated at St. Helena and died in Johannesburg on April 26th.
02:54Then a British passenger.
02:56Then a German.
02:57By early May, the ship was anchored off Cape Verde, denied entry to port.
03:03Three dead, one critically ill in an ICU.
03:06Passengers evacuated in full protective gear.
03:09The WHO notified.
03:11So, where did it come from?
03:13Investigators believe it started on land.
03:16A rodent watch-watching excursion near a landfill in Argentina.
03:20Rodent droppings, rodent urine, that is all it takes with this virus.
03:25You breathe in microscopic particles, and Hantavirus is inside you.
03:29And here is what makes this strain especially chilling.
03:33It is the Andes virus, one of the only Hantaviruses in the world that can spread from person to person.
03:40Here is where it gets close to home.
03:42Around 23 passengers disembarked at earlier stops and flew home before anyone even knew there was an outbreak.
03:49Some of them are in the United States right now.
03:53Health officials are monitoring people in Arizona, California, and Georgia.
03:57The CDC is involved.
03:59One passenger who returned to Switzerland already tested positive.
04:03As of now, the U.S. cases show no symptoms, but Hantavirus has an incubation period of one to eight
04:11weeks, which means the clock is still running.
04:14Now, the big question, is Hantavirus more dangerous than COVID?
04:18On pure lethality, yes, dramatically.
04:22COVID's overall fatality rate was around one to two percent globally.
04:27Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, the form on this ship, kills 40 to 50 percent of those infected, nearly one in two.
04:35The Andes strain can pass between people in very close, prolonged contact.
04:40But it is not a respiratory pandemic pathogen.
04:43The WHO's current risk to the global public?
04:46Low.
04:47This is not 2020.
04:49But 50 percent mortality is 50 percent mortality, and that demands respect.
04:55Here is what you need to know.
04:56If you or anyone you know was on the MV Hantavirus or traveled with someone who was, watch for fever,
05:03headache, muscle aches, or breathing difficulty in the coming weeks.
05:07See a doctor immediately and mention possible exposure.
05:10For everyone else, the risk is low.
05:13This is not a pandemic.
05:15This is not a pandemic, but this outbreak is a warning shot.
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