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A second woman jet-setted around the globe after leaving the Andes Virus-plagued vessel, without anyone noticing

A look into one of the untraced cases, rightly pointing out the cruise passengers on this particular boat are rich and fetishize travel, and not your run of the mill swinger pensioner looking for an all inclusive.

This one went to an 'extreme traveler' conf in vietnam, multiple flights, and lives in Manhattan. No posts online since the 5th. Maybe dead in her apt, maybe just freaked people have found her. Seemingly uncontacted by the tracers

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u/Babylonian_Capricorn — 9 days ago
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Thanks for making a new sub!

I found you on the post talking about being banned. The same thing happened to me. No explanation, just “banned for life!”
I really am not even sure what post or what it could’ve been other than saying I had no trust in anyone really since they knew it was a lab leak. I mean that’s confirmed. Not a conspiracy.
It felt like when they quarantined the Covid group…for years lol

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u/3blue3bird3 — 7 days ago
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Will the low transmission rate negate the mortality rate?

This is not an easily transmitted disease, but it IS transmissible and has a high mortality rate. An estimated 38% of people who develop respiratory symptoms from hantavirus may die from the disease.

Does anyone know of a study around the mode of transmission and the potential exposure risks? Specifically on the Andes virus?

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u/UpbeatAnt936 — 10 days ago
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Rapamycin As a Potential Treatment for Hantavirus

Hantavirus doesn’t usually kill people because the virus “eats the lungs” the way Hollywood viruses do. What actually happens is more disturbing and more biologically interesting.

The virus primarily infects endothelial cells, the thin cells lining blood vessels and capillaries. In severe hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), those endothelial cells become dysregulated and hyper-permeable. The body’s own signaling systems start malfunctioning. Fluid leaks out of blood vessels and floods into the lungs. Patients can go from fever and body aches to drowning in their own pulmonary edema within hours.

Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4058395/

A huge part of this process appears tied to VEGF signaling and the mTOR pathway.

Researchers found that pathogenic hantaviruses, especially Andes virus, sensitize endothelial cells to VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor), dramatically increasing vascular leak. The infected cells become enlarged, dysfunctional, and excessively permeable.

Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2395149/

This is where rapamycin becomes interesting.

Rapamycin is an mTOR inhibitor already used clinically in transplant medicine and other settings. Multiple hantavirus studies found that rapamycin reduced the abnormal permeability response in infected endothelial cells and blocked giant-cell formation associated with mTOR activation.

In simple terms: it appears to calm down the runaway signaling cascade that contributes to capillary leak and pulmonary edema.

One paper specifically concluded:

> “the ability of VEGF-C and rapamycin to normalize LEC responses suggests a potential therapeutic approach for reducing pulmonary edema and the severity of HPS following ANDV infection.”

Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3421700/

That does NOT mean rapamycin is a proven frontline treatment today.

These findings are largely mechanistic and experimental, not large-scale human clinical trial evidence. Rapamycin also suppresses parts of the immune system, which could potentially help or hurt depending on timing, dosage, and disease stage.

But the research points toward something important:

Hantavirus may be less about direct viral destruction and more about catastrophic endothelial dysfunction and vascular leak.

If that’s true, then stabilizing endothelial signaling early before the lungs flood could matter just as much as attacking the virus itself.

And that shifts the conversation from:

“How do we kill the virus?” to “How do we stop the body from turning its own blood vessels into sieves?”

u/mrweatherdude — 8 days ago
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I built an Open Source dashboard to track the #Hantavirus outbreak in real-time. It’s more detailed than most trackers I’ve seen.

Live Site (Access the Feed): https://andes-virus-assistant.streamlit.app/

world tracker(hanta virus[real time] vs covid projections), outbreak timeline (covid vs hantavirus), MV Hondius - live tracing, signals.

I’ve been following the news about the Hantavirus outbreak and the MV Hondius vessel, and I realized that most of the available "trackers" are either outdated or very basic. I decided to build a more comprehensive tool for anyone who wants to monitor the situation with actual data.

The project is called the Hantavirus Assistant. It’s 100% open-source, and I’ve just released the stable version (v1.6.0).

Here are the main features and what they actually do:

  1. Real-Time Ship Tracking (MV Hondius): Instead of just reading about the ship, you can see its live GPS coordinates, current speed, and status. It helps you visualize where the center of the outbreak is moving in real-time.
  2. The "Fear Index": This is an experiment in social sentiment. It uses an AI engine to scan daily news headlines for "fear-based" language and compares that data against live votes from people visiting the site. It’s a way to see if the media is overhyping the situation compared to how the public actually feels.
  3. Outbreak Growth Analytics: I built a chart that compares the current Hantavirus case counts directly against the early growth curve of COVID-19 from 2020. It uses a log-scale to show the actual "velocity" of the spread, which provides much better context than a raw list of numbers.
  4. Verified Knowledge Hub: I created a specialized FAQ section that pulls information directly from official WHO Situation Reports (SITREPs) and peer-reviewed medical journals. It’s designed to be a quick, reliable way to get answers about symptoms, risks, and timelines without having to dig through 50-page PDFs.
  5. Interactive News & Map: The site maps out "news hotspots" globally and combines them with a live feed of filtered outbreak news. It only shows news related to the 2026 Hantavirus event, cutting out the noise from older outbreaks.

If you’re interested in data visualization, public health, or just want a better way to stay informed, please check it out.

Live Site Feed : https://andes-virus-assistant.streamlit.app/

GitHub (Source Code): https://github.com/adityaaravind/andes-virus-assistant (https://github.com/adityaaravind/andes-virus-assistant)

Real time feed, The People's fear index.

Global pandemic risk - real time.

Live news feed, signals.

world tracker(hanta virus[real time] vs covid projections), outbreak timeline (covid vs hantavirus), MV Hondius - live tracing, signals.

FAQ's organized by trend, Most asked.

#hantavirustracker #andesvirustracker #hantavirus #sideproject

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u/Sweet_Cut3331 — 10 days ago
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Press update | m/v Hondius: 8 May 2026, 19:00 hrs CET | News | Oceanwide Expeditions

Oceanwide Expeditions released their updated itinerary about how many passengers embarked/disembarked when and where on their journey. Does anyone know about the whereabouts of the American who disembarked on Ascencion Island together with their sick British partner? You can see on the website that they both supposedly got off the boat on April 27 on Ascencion Island “(\*\*) 1 symptomatic British national, 1 asymptomatic American national (partner of patient).”

They also interacted with people of Tristan da Cunha (April 13-16) shortly after patient zero had died on the boat (April 11).

On the boat was an Islander traveling as passenger who got off on the island and they picked up some islanders to help them get to St. Helena.
““The visit of the *Hondius* was more than just a cruise ship visits. She brought with her returning islander Conrad Glass, and kindly took away with her a family of islanders with her who are travelling overseas”

https://www.tristandc.com/shipping/news-2026-04-17-hondius.php

During their visit there they went to museums, a pub and 3 people from the boat visited a school.

https://www.tristandc.com/news-2026-04-20-hondiusschoolvisit.php

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u/Maki1411 — 11 days ago
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Has anybody else heard about the hantavius outbreak that happened on a cruiseship

Has anybody else heard of the hantavirus outbreak that happened on a cruise ship?

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u/Old_Rub_7270 — 13 days ago