Christine Loescher

Yeah, no, absolutely.

I think, you know, COVID is still like it's not that distant in our memories.

And I think the last time we've heard of a virus that we never heard of before was

And we saw what happened afterwards.

So we've never heard of hantavirus.

It's not been discussed.

It's not a virus that affects, you know, European countries.

It's something that's kind of much more further afield.

And I think the idea of it happening on a cruise ship is also kind of laced with memories of COVID.

So I think it's completely understandable that people are concerned.

They're asking questions about

And because it's a virus we haven't heard of before, I think that's really, like, you know, driving people's concern.

I think the other reason why people are concerned is that we do know that the mortality rate or the death rate with this virus, you know, can be very high for individuals.

You know, it can be up to 40%.

So it's in lots of ways, even though it's a virus that doesn't really transmit very well between humans, it means that if somebody is infected, they can get really, really seriously ill.

Okay.

Now, I will caveat that with the fact that the people who have got hantavirus from the cruise that have had medical attention, they're all stable.

And actually, it's the people who contracted it quite early when they didn't know it was hantavirus and probably didn't have access to the right kind of medical care on a cruise ship

they're the people who've passed away.

So I think it's really important that medical care at the right time is a really big preventative piece.