HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker(hantawatch.net)
17 pointsby Accher6 hours ago9 comments
  • GenKali14 minutes ago
    I do love (do I?) that as I get older the early symptoms of most diseases are usually just me on a bad day:

    Fatigue, headache, abdominal pain, muscle aches - could be hantavirus, could be waking up in a weird position after slightly undercooked chicken stew for supper

  • defrost3 hours ago
    Re current top item:

      Flight Attendant in Netherlands Tested for Hantavirus

  Stewardess who was briefly on Johannesburg-Amsterdam flight admitted to Amsterdam UMC on May 7. Tests expected today.
    See:

    KLM flight attendant tested negative for hantavirus infection, WHO says - https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

  • vintagedave3 hours ago
    Helpful website, but the cookie settings show hundreds of partners. Deeply unethical in general, let alone for a site that will be read by those who are worried and want information.
    • throawayonthe3 hours ago
      also the font, the symptoms section, and looking at the html gives LLM vibes somehow

      and seemingly no info on who made/operates it?

      • etiam2 hours ago
        Symptoms section is very LLM, and that includes why it's obviously urging that critical early recognition on symptom lists that are too nonspecific to really be actionable. Imagine the workload if people started seeking medical examinations on basis of the Week 1-2 list.
      • duskdozeran hour ago
        Yes it's very obviously vibecoded and looks nearly identical to the other hantavirus tracker posted by a new user today
        • Rohunyyyan hour ago
          I wish the world wasn't like this, but I think we are wayyyy past the point of whether something is LLM generated or not.
    • shellfishgene3 hours ago
      I just get Error: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER from Firefox and Edge.
  • tasuki3 hours ago
    I like that we, the humanity, have started paying attention to virus outbreaks. Compared to "real" pandemics, COVID-19 was rather mild, but it helped raise awareness. I think we're now much better prepared and equipped for the eventual real pandemic.
    • neals2 hours ago
      Are we? I feel like we're cruising and flying a boat full of potentially infected people to 23 counties.
    • roelschroevenan hour ago
      I don't really think so. Already in the first stages of this outbreak we're not doing any quarantine, instead we're infecting airline passengers and personnel and let them spread the virus uncontrolled. That doesn't indicate a proper prepared response.

      Official knowledge is that Hanta transmission required prolonged close contact, but there are increasingly indication that Hanta can be transmitted through the air. That is going to be ignored in favor of the official but possibly outdated mode of transmission, leading to wrong or insufficient response.

      Also I feel like people will be more hesitant than in 2020 to adopt behavior that avoids virus transmission.

      If mutated Hanta variants turn out to be very effective at transmission, and if we don't have the luck of a quick vaccin as we did with Covid, we're cooked.

      Hanta is a lot more deadly than Covid, and that can possibly be a good thing because that's the one thing that could lead to proper effective response. It has the potential to lead to rigorous measures to stop transmission instead of allowing it to spread to the whole population, leading to fewer cases and fewer deaths.

    • 1132 hours ago
      Millions of people died and the main takeaway for the US seems to be giving up vaccines and cutting programs that would mitigate future disasters. Not sure how you've come to that conclusion.
  • baq2 hours ago
    > Total Cases

    > 9+

    > As of May 8, 2026

    I'm as concerned about this outbreak as anyone, but this number is pure FUD and can go up on a tweet of somebody's grandma sneezing at an airport. Keep the lab confirmed one.

    • kitd2 hours ago
      A radio report I heard said that hantavirus is nothing like coronavirus. It is not new, endemic, and there is plenty of immunity around to slow down local spread.
    • AntiUSAbahan hour ago
      I'm not concerned at all. Should I be concerned?
      • baq30 minutes ago
        Concerned? Yes. Should you panic, though? Absolutely not.
    • b1122 hours ago
      Being a first mover in the panic-virus, I guess panic-anything is big bucks.

      Just think! If we all start dying, this guy'll be rich from targeted bunker ads and such.

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  • jasonvorhe2 hours ago
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    • amanaplanacanal2 hours ago
      What?
      • wongarsu2 hours ago
        From what I've seen there are two narratives people point to as evidence of this being intentional, in one way or another:

        - A new "pandemic" every six years (they count things like swine flu, so not quite pandemic)

        - the seeming stupidity of taking a disease outbreak contained to one easy to quarantine place and putting those people on commercial airliners with minimal precautions, to quarantine them at their destination. I can practically hear the "I'm not trying to say they are trying to spread it, but if they did what would they do differently"

        I don't have strong opinions on this, but those are the things I've seen on the interwebs

        • jasonvorhean hour ago
          I appreciate the neutral explainer man!
      • tgv2 hours ago
        You know, those sneaky Chinese this time chose a Dutch cruise to an island far away to spread their new attempt to kill off the entire world's population.

        Yeah, that's not a serious reply. But the those are the vibes I get of the GP comment.

      • jasonvorhe2 hours ago
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  • LargoLasskhyfvan hour ago
    Hrrm. This is triggering my conspiracy theory affine mind hard.

    Wanna know why? Cruise ship. Should be full of the usual suspects putting their experiences on the net via FB/Insta/TikTok/whatever at every opportunity. They all have internet out there, meanwhile.

    You'll find almost nothing from them. I'd have expected much more. Why is that? Media blackout? Manufactured event to justify another round of shutdown of society?

    This is looking staged.