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Hantavirus: Public Health or Fear Theater?
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Hantavirus: Public Health or Fear Theater?
Do you feel dizzy yet?
It seems we are on the same merry-go-round again.
I loved Dr. Malone’s take in his latest substack, here is my summary.
A virus shows up. The headlines get dramatic. The public is told there’s “no cure” and “no vaccine.” Fear goes up. Context disappears.
But the Andes strain of hantavirus is not new. It has been around in South America for decades. What appears to have happened here is much more basic: a virus likely got onto a ship through rodent contamination during provisioning or boarding.
That is not a “new pandemic threat.”
That is a sanitation and logistics failure.
And yes, hantavirus can be serious. People can become very ill. Some die. That should never be brushed off.
But there is a big difference between informing people and pushing them into helpless fear.
Dr. Malone makes the point clearly: if the goal is public health, the conversation should include practical prevention — rodent control, sanitation, respiratory protection where needed, and early support at the site of exposure, including the nasal and respiratory tract.
This is also where the IMA COVID protocols still matter. The same basic principles apply: don’t wait until a virus reaches the lungs or becomes systemic. Support the body early. Focus on the nasal passages, respiratory tract, immune function, and practical prevention.
Instead, the media gives us the usual script: no vaccine, no cure, be afraid.
We’ve seen this movie before.
We’ll drop the full Substack in the comments.
Quick question: Do you trust the media to explain outbreak risks calmly — yes or no?
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The full substack: https://curativabay.substack.com/p/the-hantavirus-theater-continues
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Dr. Malone does do a good job identifying the fearmongering being played up with the current “outbreak.” Dr. Sam Bailey published a short video about the alleged hantavirus last year when the corporate media blamed it for Gene Hackman and/or his wife’s deaths. Dr. Bailey agrees about fearmongering, but offers a different analysis. She correctly points out the symptoms are non-specific and nobody anywhere has ever actually identified and isolated the alleged hantavirus. Both Dr. Malone and Dr. Bailey agree generally about the underlying cause possibly including bad sanitation. Dr. Malone blames sanitation deficiencies for allowing a virus to exist and cause infection. Dr. Bailey disagrees on the virus idea — she compellingly argues there’s no reason to blame an imaginary virus that never has been isolated or otherwise proven to exist. Instead, she says poor sanitation from allowing contact with diseased rodents or from other sources, as well as contaminated food and water more generally, environmental poisons, toxic pharmaceuticals, and/or other toxins are sufficient by themselves for creating conditions in the body that cause disease and death. https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/viruses-unplugged/hollywoods-hantavirus/
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Dishonest reporting and promoting fear – we have OTC and inexpensive “natural” treatment that effectively treat/eradicate any pathogen.
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As Miranda Priestley would say, “rats? On ships? Groundbreaking…”
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There are tons of different Hanta virus and luckily these are RNA virus we learnt to treat during the pandemic. So primary task would be to sequence the virus and relate it with known ones.
A quick research did point to Chloroquine (may better HCQ) as primary treatment, what could also mean that Ivermectin works too. But I could not find any related paper/report so far.
Look at :: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9966805/ for a Hanta virus treatment summary and learn that the expensive drugs one sold for Covid do shine up again and have almost no use if not given before symptoms.
Stereoids etc. are recommend – just read the paper to get more details!
J.W.
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https://x.com/BretWeinstein/status/2052249223027105948?s=20
We use Claude a lot – it is brilliant. But had to do that knowing chuckle thing when I read this.
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Good to see someone in charge being balanced
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Another very plausable reason for the panic is the vaccine being developed by Oxford https://www.perplexity.ai/page/hantavirus-vaccine-work-advanc-DFis9OIAQaWa8nvJ6QXc2w?
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From our Senior Fellow Dr. Clayton Baker published by the Brownstone Institute.
“The WHO, Big Pharma, and the other bad actors behind the Covid catastrophe are at it again.
At this writing, they’re churning out industrial-strength fear porn regarding an alleged outbreak of Hantavirus infections aboard a small cruise ship, the MV Hondius. If all this gives you flashbacks to the Diamond Princess cruise ship incident from the early days of Covid, you’re not alone.”
It’s a great read in counter to the fear gereration.
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From Dr. Kat Lindley:
(AI analysis)
A systematic review published in “The Journal of Infectious Diseases” concluded that the overall balance of evidence does not support the claim of human-to-human transmission of the Andes virus (ANDV). While some studies in South America suggested potential transmission, rigorous comparative studies did not support this claim.
Key findings from the study include:
Evidence Evaluation: With the exception of one prospective cohort study with a high risk of bias, stronger comparative studies did not support human-to-human transmission of the Andes virus.
Methodological Concerns: Non-comparative studies that suggested person-to-person spread possessed a critical risk of bias, often failing to rule out co-exposure to the primary, rodent-borne source.
Conclusion: The review, titled “Evidence for Human-to-Human Transmission of Hantavirus: A Systematic Review,” calls for better-designed studies and concludes that the evidence does not support the claim of human-to-human transmission of ANDV.
While the Andes virus is unique in its suspected ability for human-to-human transmission, primarily in South America, this specific review determined that the balance of evidence fails to support that claim
Based on the article in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
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Wanted to add a recent interview Dr. Talley Bowden did with Kibbe on Liberty on Hantavirus : https://open.spotify.com/episode/5IhorckNJHuEdAGEKAjIH0?si=5ceowRJETLSeylhH9QklTg
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