Because we knew we were gonna be fucked if a more transmissible variant showed up…
In 2024, the NIH identified several families of viruses — including hantaviruses — that were extremely dangerous and had no effective vaccines or treatments, making them of special concern for their potential to cause a pandemic. To better prepare for future pandemics, the NIH awarded a series of grants through the ReVAMPP program to study these viruses and develop new tools to combat them, including the grant that established the Provident consortium and enabled this latest study. McLellan and other Provident researchers have simultaneously been working to find ways to address other viruses that health officials have identified as especially dangerous in an outbreak, such as measles and Nipah virus.
Yeah, it’s still something very dangerous, and i’m grateful for the info you shared, otherwuse i’d have no idea. I just wanted to share the “fun” maths behind those statistics.
I mean, it killed Gene Hackman’s wife…
It’s called “andes variant” but it’s been in America for a while.
Weirdly enough, it’s such a big concern that we mapped it like a month before this cruise outbreak:
https://news.utexas.edu/2026/03/11/scientists-map-deadly-hantavirus-bringing-treatments-one-step-closer/
Because we knew we were gonna be fucked if a more transmissible variant showed up…
And it may just have…
Yeah, it’s still something very dangerous, and i’m grateful for the info you shared, otherwuse i’d have no idea. I just wanted to share the “fun” maths behind those statistics.