Professor Luke O'Neill

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Show Me the Science with Luke O'Neill · The Science of Hantavirus · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

And somebody must have gone to that party full of the hantavirus, 34 cases, 11 deaths.

Now, that gives you the rough idea.

But a third of the people died in that situation.

Now, again, that was very close quarters and someone heavily infected.

Now, the reason why, less of a concern than COVID, when you catch it, you're really, really sick.

The symptoms begin very quickly and you don't want to be going to a party.

So we're not quite sure what happened there, that someone who was really sick went to that party.

On the cruise ship, the person began to feel sick, obviously, and they went to their cabin, but sadly infected the other person in the cabin.

And that person might have gone on deck or out to the restaurant or whatever.

So it can spread.

But overall, people are too sick and they're inclined not to socialise.

And remember, that's a key feature of any infectious disease.

Again, that's kind of evolution.

You're meant to feel sick to get you away from the herd because we are in a herd effectively.

And you go and lie down somewhere and it doesn't spread.

COVID was different.

COVID had people spreading it with no symptoms.

It's got asymptomatic spread.

And that's what made COVID so malignant, as it were, because you could spread it quite easily then among the population.

But hence it's different.

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