Three die after virus outbreak on Atlantic cruise ship

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4. Oh, crap.

Damn deadly pathogen that killed Gene Hackman's wife. There are a number of variants. None of them pleasant. Some give ebola a run for its money in fatality rates. So far, humans have been lucky and no hantavirus strains have developed human to human transmission. At least not confirmed though there have been rumors. If a particularly nasty strain ever does, it's The Black Death all over again. Amazingly, people wondered why public health organizations took covid so seriously. We as a species have been down this road before and it's never pretty.