Feels like covid in late 2019/early 2020. I’m half expecting to read some Reddit post from some guy in a major city saying that he has some weird cold and his doctor told him not to go outside but he’s unable to test so he’s unsure what it is. Of course I said the same thing about bird flu last year and that has yet to pop off. The difference of course being that hantavirus has confirmed human-to-human transmission, bird flu never did.
Thoughts? Are you preparing for covid 2? Think it’ll fizzle out?
So far it’s a single incident from an obvious source so I’m not too concerned. The news I’m seeing is that three people were evacuated (likely to receive treatment somewhere that isn’t a floating morgue) and the rest are still effectively quarantined since they’re not being allowed to dock in the Canary Islands.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-06/spanish-passenger-on-the-hondius-there-are-23-people-who-got-off-on-saint-helena-and-have-been-wandering-around.html
Interesting, I was going off an Al Jazeera article that had the following passage:
Maybe they only recently stopped allowing them to dock?
docked before that in Saint Helena afaik
They sent 12 asymptomatic passengers home. One of those infected a french national while on board the plane.
They definitely have been allowed to dock in the Canary Islands, at the very least unloading part of the crew/passengers. I saw it on Spanish news yesterday.