What's Going On With Shipping?
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What's Going On With Shipping? Get Them Off the Damn Boat! | M/V Hondius in Cape Verde with a Hantavirus Outbreak
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What's Going On With Shipping? Get Them Off the Damn Boat! | M/V Hondius in Cape Verde with a Hantavirus Outbreak
@ai6yr not on Cape Verde. They passed by many other countries, could have and should have gone anywhere else. The island's doctors and nurses will do what they can, on the boat, but Cape Verde doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with an on shore quarantine, much less with a possible outbreak (human to human, or mice on the island). They'd be devastated into oblivion (poor people without basic sanitation on small islands, with about 10 full-time doctors on their biggest hospital, their "brain drain" happens to my country, since we speak the same language and Cape Verde was a Portuguese colony until the late 1970's).
They should be brought to a more developed country, one that can impose a quarantine while the ones that become sick can be properly treated. -
@ai6yr not on Cape Verde. They passed by many other countries, could have and should have gone anywhere else. The island's doctors and nurses will do what they can, on the boat, but Cape Verde doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with an on shore quarantine, much less with a possible outbreak (human to human, or mice on the island). They'd be devastated into oblivion (poor people without basic sanitation on small islands, with about 10 full-time doctors on their biggest hospital, their "brain drain" happens to my country, since we speak the same language and Cape Verde was a Portuguese colony until the late 1970's).
They should be brought to a more developed country, one that can impose a quarantine while the ones that become sick can be properly treated.@jt_rebelo @ai6yr
The threat of continued exposure to rodent droppings or contaminated food on the ship is substantial, and with lethal consequences. The existence of human-to-human transmission of hantavirus, on the other hand, is not supported by any strong evidence.Confining people to the ship is far more likely to kill people than carefully ferrying them to shore sans mice. And quarantine need not be fancy or long term - eg, a hotel paid for by the ship's insurer, etc, until other arrangements can be made.
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@jt_rebelo @ai6yr
The threat of continued exposure to rodent droppings or contaminated food on the ship is substantial, and with lethal consequences. The existence of human-to-human transmission of hantavirus, on the other hand, is not supported by any strong evidence.Confining people to the ship is far more likely to kill people than carefully ferrying them to shore sans mice. And quarantine need not be fancy or long term - eg, a hotel paid for by the ship's insurer, etc, until other arrangements can be made.
Yeah the boat is contaminated.
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