Graham Fry

Okay.

Good morning to you.

It's a viral condition, obviously, which is more common than you might understand.

I mean, many thousand cases occur within...

Europe every single year.

So it's just most of our case reports come in from the Americas.

And fundamentally, it's one that can cause very severe consequences.

But at the same time, it's rare and it's uncommon.

The one change which is occurring is the thing called the Andes virus, which is part of that same family.

And it is one that is person to person transmissible.

In other words, you can actually breathe it, cough it, spit it from person to person.

And that's where the issue actually rises in this particular case, because the vast majority of these cases are actually from contaminated rodent droppings, urine feces from the rodent, which has been swept and made into a mist and then people actually breathe it in.

But I mean, that's not likely to happen on a cruise ship at all.

It's possible, but it's not at all likely.

So this is probably the air version of it.

Yeah, that's where it's been recognised mainly.

And that's the concern, because obviously as an airborne disease, you can spread it much more easily from person to person.

In a confined setting, that's much more common.

No, we can't vaccinate them and we can't treat it either.

I mean, we can support somebody who's sick with the condition, but we can't actually specifically treat it.