Professor Michelle Harkins

Typically, we see people within about two weeks afterwards, but there are studies showing that it can last up to eight weeks.

Eight weeks?

I wasn't happy.

So as a virologist, you never like hearing about a virus that is doing something unusual.

On top of that, she was like, and it's happening on a cruise ship that's traveling all around the world with passengers from all around the global community who are then going to disperse.

That's not a good setup.

You're like, oh, no.

Oh, no.

So let's take Andes versus Synombre.

So if you were to look at those two haunted viruses, they're pretty highly related.

But there's regions that are a little bit different between Synombre, which doesn't spread human to human, and Andes that does.

So for coronavirus, for analogy, we think about spike, right?

The spike protein.

So on Andy's virus, instead of they don't have spike, we call it glycoprotein, so GP.

So these GP proteins are a little bit different on Andes virus.

And the consequence is, at least on the sort of infection level, is the Andes virus can infect a wider range of cells.

you know, birthday party, went.

And looks like at that birthday party, probably exposed some other people, but at least two other people that went on to then be involved in social events and spread.

One of them was the wake of the second person that had died.

But for this hantavirus... So I think even in the most, sort of the most dramatic outbreaks we have, the R-naught is something like 2%.