Wendy Zuckerman

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Science Vs · Hantavirus: How Scary Is It?? · 13 May 2026 podcast

So when we asked Anne the big question of this episode, the question that so many of you guys had,

is this going to be the next pandemic?

Here's what she said.

And other researchers that we spoke to said the same thing.

And I know you might be feeling, hey, some of you scientists said COVID would be fine too, and look what happened.

And at the beginning of the pandemic, scientists were making educated guesses about what was going on and how the virus was going to behave, and they got stuff wrong.

With this hunter virus that's causing the outbreak, the Andes version, scientists have been studying it for 30 years.

And we know that scary outbreaks tend to be pretty small.

But still, if you want to be careful, if you're cleaning up a space that might have rodent poo, wear a mask.

And if you have a friend that just got off a cruise ship, avoid deep kisses.

That's science versus.

This episode has more than 80 citations in it.

If you want to read more about Hunter virus, understand where we get all of our information from.

There's a link to our transcript in the show notes.

Go check it out.

This episode was produced by Michelle Dang with help from Blythe Terrell, Meryl Horne, Rose Rimler, Akedi Foster-Keys and me, Wendy Zuckerman.

We're edited by Blythe Terrell.

I'm the executive producer.

Fact-checking by Diane Kelly.

Mix and sound design by Bobby Lord.

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