Christine Loescher

That's where this might end?

It might.

It might.

You know, the WHO have said they might expect a couple more cases.

They might expect that people who left the ship early that possibly were exposed are incubating and didn't know that they were exposed, you know, until very early in May, that there is a possibility where

they may have transmitted on at some stage of infection.

So what they expect is potentially a few more cases, which shouldn't alarm people.

And the expectation is that this is the way the cluster arises.

And then it's shut down very quickly because the mode of transmission is so rare.

I mean, I suppose what it's done is shed a light on a virus that is extremely lethal to people who might get it and can make people quite sick, even though it's a rare event, but that it's something that we don't have a vaccine and we don't have a treatment for.

And I think that as...

Time goes on and people are travelling more.

You know, South America are used to dealing with this.

Hantavirus in general, not the Andy strain, but the other strains, they make people sick, but the mortality rate is really low.

They're not really dangerous viruses.

It's only this particular one.

And maybe we should be looking at maybe having something, you know, in the background that means that we have something to deal with something like this.

I think it's caught us by surprise because it's a rare event and it doesn't normally happen outside of

South America where the virus is endemic.

I mean, you can't rule out that there is going to be exposure of people to viruses as they start to travel to, I mean, these people were travelling, you know, they were going to remote islands, they were going to