JTG MINI: What the hell is going on with the Hantavirus outbreak?
5/12/202641 min
Three people are dead, more passengers have been diagnosed, and British paratroopers had to parachute medical supplies onto the most remote inhabited island on earth. The Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius is finally on its way home to be disinfected, but the hantavirus outbreak on board has scattered suspected cases across more than a dozen countries. So is this the next covid? And how is it the same virus that killed Gene Hackman's wife last year? This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius.
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Resources:
CDC Provides Update on Hantavirus Outbreak Linked to M/V Hondius Cruise Ship (CDC, 2026)
YouTuber Catches Heat After Attending Wedding Amid Hantavirus Outbreak (TMZ, 2026)
What doctors know about how the Andes hantavirus spreads (CNN, 2026)
MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak (Wikipedia, 2026)
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First 90 secondsRosie Waterland· Host0:00
Beep boop, beep boop, beep boop. A Just The Network production. Beep boop boop. [laughs] That sounds good. Hayley Staveley. Rosanna Waterland. Have you been hearing the word hanta, hanta, hantavirus? [laughs] Is it hanta? Yeah, yeah. Well, I feel like people say hunter, but then it's spelled hanta. So- And we're Australian, so we... Do we say Fanta? No, we say Fanta. [laughs] I think you say Fanta. And it's spelled like, it's spelled like Fanta. Yeah. So maybe it's hantavirus. Hanta. Hantavirus. Hanta, yeah. Okay. Well- Look, we know what we're both talking about ... hantavirus, hantavirus has been all around everywhere this week because there is this Dutch cruise ship, sh- cruise ship called the MV Hondeas sitting off the coast of the Canary Islands right now. There's three people dead, more people are sick. The body of a German woman is still on board the ship. There's panicking governments around the world trying to track people down, flying in citizens, including some Australians have been brought back home. Um, also, this hantavirus thing is actually the virus that killed Gene Hackman's wife last year. So, like- Oh ... I just thought, I, I keep hearing, "It's the next COVID. We're gonna go into lockdown. This is gonna spread," blah, blah, blah. And I just keep seeing all these snippets of headlines, and I've not really been across it, and I was like, "You know what? I'm gonna do the mini, I'm gonna do a mini. I'm gonna- Mm ... I'm gonna do the job. I'm gonna give you just the gist of what's going on with this hantavirus outbreak." So, um- Do you know how lucky