Dr Luke O'Neill
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Unless you run that cruise ship, of course, because that's where it is, you know.
No, no, I mean, there's eight cases, three deaths.
Obviously, three tragic deaths have happened, you know.
Only eight people affected by this, you know.
And the big fuss in the media, I guess, is partly a hangover from the pandemic, isn't it?
Cruise ships are very confined, as you know, spaces.
You're in close contact with lots of people.
Norovirus is the famous one.
That winter vomiting bug, that can spread through a cruise ship and infect everybody because it's such a confined space.
And that's what's happened here, really.
Now, it's a strange enough virus, hantavirus.
It's quite hard to catch, first of all.
It's in South America is where they picked it up, it looks like.
And you know how they caught it?
It's interesting how it was caught.
There were bird watchers on this ship.