Andes Hantavirus On A Cruise Ship Explained

We sort the real Andes hantavirus news from the “Honda virus” internet joke and walk through what’s confirmed about the MV Hondius cases, symptoms, and why this strain gets extra attention. We also celebrate the class of 2026 with shout outs and talk straight about misinformation, conspiracies, and how to keep your head when the timeline gets loud. 
• what the WHO confirms so far and why it matters 
• why Andes hantavirus is different from most hantavirus cases 
• how the “Honda virus” rumor spreads and why pattern-seeking backfires 
• incubation window and what symptoms to watch for 
• why there’s no vaccine and no miracle cure posts to trust 
• King County monitoring questions and quarantine decisions 
• why fatality-rate talk spikes fear and fuels doomscrolling 
• graduation shout outs plus practical advice for seniors making plans 

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Transcript

Welcome And What’s Ahead

VO 0:01

Welcome to U.S. Phenomenon, where possibilities are endless. Put down those sample headlines. It's time to expand your mind and question what if. From paranormal activity to UFOs, Bigfoot sightings, and unsolved mysteries. This is U.S. Phenomenon.

Honda Virus Joke Meets Reality

What Andes Hantavirus Really Is

Class Of 2026 Shout Outs

Conspiracies And Pattern Seeking Brains

No Vaccine And No Miracle Cures

Local Washington Exposure Questions

National Response And Fatality Fears

Mask Habits And Monitoring Confusion

Timeline Facts Symptoms And What To Do

Final Shout Outs And Sign Off

Mario 0:19

From the Pacific Northwest in the shadow of the 1962 World's Fair, the Space N-Hello, I'm your host, Mario Magagna. This is US Phenomenon. Yeah, we will be talking about some huge things this week on this episode of the show. If you're not a subscriber to the podcast, please subscribe, go to your favorite podcasting platform, and search US Phenomenon with Mario Magania. Or you can go to my website, onairmario.com, click on the podcast button to subscribe or go to your favorite podcasting platform. So uh with everything that's been going on with the Hontavirus, some people call it the Honda virus, uh, we're gonna be talking about that and getting into the facts, the myths, the conspiracy, because it is the hottest thing right now in the news. Plus, we're gonna continue giving the class of 2026 their digital shout outs. Alright. Uh, so let's get into this a little bit. Let's add let's address the elephant in the room. Or rather, the mouse in the engine. We've seen the hashtag Honda hashtag Honda Virus. I'm here to tell you your car's okay. Your car's fine, okay? Uh this is actually an outbreak from the Andes Hontavirus that started on a cruise ship called the MV Hondius. Because Honda sounds like Honda, the internet did what it does, it broke it. We'll get into the myths, the conspiracies, like I said, the theories, and what some call this a digital to human manipulation. After uh, and we'll we'll talk about that as well. Okay, let's be honest. Let's get serious for a second. This isn't a social media trend. There is a real situation. As of May 13th, the World Health Organization confirmed 11 cases and three deaths linked to this cruise ship, the MV Hondius. It started way back in April that left Argentina. The strain is the Andes virus. Now, this is the CDC. Now, this is why the CDC and the WHO are sweating this one. Most Honda Honta virus, not Honda, Hontavirus, you get is from breathing the dust near rodent droppings. But the Andes strain is a little more is the black sheep. This is the only one that can be spread from person to person. That's why the ship was under such heavy monitoring during its headway towards the Netherlands. And we've got one inconclusive case right here in the US being tested as we speak. If you're hearing rumors about manufactured bioweapons or car engine propaganda, ignore them. This is a biological reality of rare, highly fatal virus that found a foothold on a ship. When we think about these things, it's like is the CDC, is the and the WHO, the World Uh Health Organization, are they giving us the straight answers right now? I believe that they are. I mean, I I know everyone's I've I've heard a lot of people talking, just you know, in the the myths of doing life right now. I hear a lot of people like, oh, here's COVID 2.0. You're definitely hearing a lot of that right now. There, I mean, there are some value to that. I mean, the people that uh came back from Washington, you know, the the news organizations are locally had pushed out an alert about someone being uh confirmed being on the ship and now is in Nebraska under quarantine. So we'll get into all that stuff and talk about uh is this gonna be a serious outbreak? Are we gonna see uh a serious outbreak here in the next couple weeks? And we're talking about an eight-week uh gestation period. That's a long time. That's a long time. I mean, this could really devastate the economy if there is a huge outbreak again. Uh so hopefully this is something that's very rare, that they got everything under control. Uh, and we gotta keep, you know, we got to keep things pushing um with life. And I know a lot of these high school kids were part of that first uh pandemic. You know, they they a lot of those kids, a lot of these kids uh were home. There's a there's a huge generation of young individuals that were home during the pandemic. Uh, same with us adults, but a lot of these kids, and especially this graduating class and a few to come after that, um, that's their normal reality that they were attending school via a web browser, of a computer, a laptop. I remember just recently seeing a feed of uh on my my memories of my daughter doing PE uh in the in the house. I I laughed because it's funny. Um, and I was like, wow, that was such a long time ago. Um as we continue to celebrate the class of 2026, make sure you get your shout-outs in of your uh special loved ones. 775-9905151. As the text lines are flooded with uh text coming in. Let's lighten the mood because our seniors have worked way too hard to let a virus steal the spotlight. All right, Texas Arc flying in here from Yakima. Big shout out to Elena at Eisenhower High School. You did it, Miha. Uh love mom and dad. Congratulations. Uh, from Seattle to Ballard High Crew, the world isn't ready for you. Congrats, class of 2026. We do have one coming in from the 509 again uh from Spokane, Washington. Uh uh shout out to Marcus and Ferris at Ferris High. Uh from the courtyard to the stage. Keep grinding. Uh, congratulations uh out there in uh Spokane. Must be listening on the stream on our flagship station 570 KVI. Thank you for hanging out and listening to us. We'll continue to get your graduations. Uh, if you're graduating, if you're I mean, you're grateful, you guys are graduating soon. So we got the graduations hinting from Puallop and Seattle starting next month at the fairgrounds or McCall Hall. If you're if you got a senior that you're proud of, text me. 775-990-5151. We'd love to hear from you. Uh, get those shout-outs in. I mean, it's so crazy. And those uh kids who are out there listening, maybe you're driving around, hanging out. Um, yeah, the uncertainty is out there. I mean, you're like, what am I gonna do? There's there are there are some kids who are don't know exactly what they want to do, and that's okay. You know, just get that foot in the door, graduate, enjoy some of your summer, have a plan, though. Make sure you have a plan, as uh I would like to say. I mean, you know, if you're working, you're doing something, maybe you're gonna sign up for the Peace Corps and do something like that. Uh, that's all that always there's all types of different options. Go to the community college, or maybe go to a college like a Bellevue College where it's a community college, but it also now has a four-year degree available, which is also an economical route for some. Um, you know, you can always do those, uh, those types of um routes as well. Uh it's just it it is an exciting time. And i if I could just give any a piece of advice, if I could go back and rewind and tell 17, 18-year-old Mario Um if he could do it all over again, um, I would. You know, I mean I I love what I do now for a living. Um I definitely did not know what I wanted to do, but it it did take some time to figure that out. And I did, and and it just kind of hit me like a uh, you know, like a box. It just it was it was incredible. And um I'm thankful that I I mean it's something that I love and then I joy do uh that I enjoy doing. So um uh excited for those out there. Congratulations uh to the class of 2026. We'll continue talking about the uh honta virus, uh, and I know a lot of people have called it the um back to the Honda virus, the madness of why people are convinced it's a car company. Oh, of course it is. Well, back in 2017, a computer virus called the WanaCry actually shut down Honda, the Honda plants, and now conspiracy theorists are stitching this old news with this new hantavirus news to claim it's a it was a planned event. Now, look, I mean you can go down that conspiracy rabbit hole, and let's do that real quick. You you're gonna hear everyone talk about this is manufactured, they're gonna put this in the air via chemtrails. Um you're gonna see all types of different conspiracies. TikTok is going to go ballistic. I haven't seen a ton of that stuff on X or TikTok right now. Uh so which is kind of interesting to me that there is some of that talk, but I have not, it's not in my for you page or whatever the streamline. I don't know, I'm not that hip anymore. But I'm not seeing it in my feed. I'm not getting those conspiracies and me being a conspiracy, I I wouldn't say junkie, but someone who uh uh casually I'm that guy who I'm that person, that guy who would be in the grocery store and would see the tableau and be like, oh wow, there was a a spotting of a werewolf or UFO sighting or a Bigfoot sighting. That uh can't I guess the average casual uh look looky or looker or uh browser or whatever the case may be. Um so yeah that's I would say that I I am a um that type of uh browser. Not not like a yeah, I I don't go like a crazy over it. I I definitely have to just yeah just keep to it be an ear, keep my eyes looking, keep my eyes open, and and continue to look for things that may just uh fit in between the headlines. Like this one here, where I think that some of the media may be blowing this out of proportion, but how much of it is blown up, how much of it uh do you feel like is manufactured? Do you feel like you're getting the correct information? And we just want to make sure that we are getting that. Because I know there's a lot of us out here like, wait a second. Like I said earlier, is this gonna be another pandemic? I don't think that's gonna be the case, but we are going to continue to find out if more cases start to populate in the next couple weeks. That's when time will tell. If this if there's an eight-week period, that is a long time, ladies and gentlemen, where people are going to we gotta wait this one out. Definitely this will be interesting to see how this plays out and how this will kind of affect. If I mean, if something like this turns into another pandemic, the uh it's going to rock and crush the economy. I just don't think that the economy will be able to sustain itself. And people are like, oh, we'll be working from home. I don't think a lot of people are gonna be out of jobs. You know, I think I think that the economy is at the t at that tipping point. I'm not an I'm I'm not a professional, but that's just what I think will happen. I think unless you're an essential worker, there's gonna be a lot of people sitting out sitting on the unemployment line. So uh say your prayers or whatever you do, uh, that this is uh just a quick, that this is they have it under control, and this is not something that is going to uh turn into a a pandemic again. Uh this this could be a serious one if that's the case. And and what I'll say is um I kind of joked around like during the first pandemic, I was like, man, the planet's just really not happy with us humans, says, hey man, I will you you may be here on my on my on my planet, but uh y'all need to start using these resources correctly. And uh I I joked around of like the planets like doing course correction uh and and and getting rid of uh uh humans, but um I joked around about that uh many years ago on the podcast and radio show back then. Uh I don't look I don't think that this is something that um I think I believe that the the World Hor Health Organization has this under control. I think the CDC is doing a fantastic job to make sure that they have everything right, and we hope that this administration is doing everything in their power to make sure that they're protecting us U.S. citizens. I mean, that is their job. That's why we put these people in power. So um now let's get back to this. I I know that the madness is out there. People are calling this, like I was saying, like calling this the Honda virus. Well, why, you know, like I was saying, that this ain't a uh this is it wasn't in the plan. Uh, for those folks that um are into conspiracies, like I was talking about earlier, uh they were trying to tie it with the 2017 thing. If you were listening earlier, yes, this is not something that is tied with that. This is something completely different. And folks, it's a linguistic ghost. Hontavirus sounds like Honda. Like we were saying earlier. The Hondias was the ship. Sounds like Honda. The human brain loves patterns even when they aren't there. There is no digital virus. This is a that turned into a lung disease. It is some crap that you might be seeing on TikTok like I was talking about. It's just just swipe up, it's just junk. Alright. I mean, at this point, it's nothing to um that's gonna have any legs to stand on. And I'm really surprised that a lot of that makes it out there on the social webs. Um you would think that there would be more policing of that, and I'm sure that there will be uh some of that as well. But um let's continue to get in these uh these high school shout-outs. Um they're still the techs are coming in. Uh here's another round of shout-outs. From Tacoma, shout out to Stadium High, the Stadium High Tigers, best view, best crew. Congratulations, uh, Stadium High. From Bellevue, from the 425 to Sarah at Newport. Hi, heading to UW in the fall. Go Dogs from Bellingham. Congrats to COMA High grads. Change the world, guys, and congratulations to the class of 2026. We'll continue to take your shout outs through the month of June if you have uh graduations as they start to pour in here. You can send your text to 775-990-5151. We'd love to hear from you. We'd love to celebrate your loved ones and give them a quick shout-out uh via text message. Uh so you can get those sent in. We'll get to them. If we don't get them to the in this show, we'll put them on the next uh show that we have. So you can get those uh shout-outs out. Like I said, at 775-990-5151. All right. So as we get back into talking about this, uh, the conspiracies of this uh 20 set 2016-2017 ghost, uh, I mean, you even have people tweeting uh like m a Marjorie Ta Taylor Green, Marjorie Taylor Green calling this a bioweapon uh for uh vaccine profits. Listen to me. There is no vaccine for the Hontavirus yet. There is no secret cure involving zinc or ivermectin. Let's just get that out there too. This is a rare respiratory illness that requires hospital grade oxygen and care. Now everyone's gonna be like, oh my god, the oxygen's gonna kill us. Hopefully that is not the case here. We're not. Let's keep everything in perspective. Hopefully, this is something that the the WHO and the CDC have under control. Like I said, this is a rare respiratory illness. Don't let a catchy hashtag replace your common sense. Alright? If you're not a if you're not from the uh who or the CDC, it's probably fictitious. Alright? Um, yeah. We gotta be you gotta be careful. There's gonna be a ton, a ton of that uh being pushed out there. Um so yeah. Let's continue uh on with um more talk about the Hontavirus, uh the local cases and whatnot. Now let's get into the piece that is interesting to me. Let's talk about the local cases because this is the part where I find this to be intriguing to me. Now in King County, there have been reports of three residents that have been exposed. All right, so the airport exposure, two of these people weren't even on the cruise ship. They were on the flight from South Africa to Amsterdam and sat within two seats of an ill passenger who later tested positive. They are currently isolating together at their home in King County. I thought they were uh uh I thought they were going. Okay, and then the the person, the cruiser, the one resident who was actually a passenger on the MV Hondius, this person is currently being monitored at the National Quarantine Center in Omaha, Nebraska, along with 15 other Americans. Now, what's interesting to me, why didn't they take the two people that were from Washington State? Well, the other two how come they didn't take those two individuals to the national quarantine area? Now, let's continue on. The current status, zero confirmed cases. All three Washingtonians are currently asymptomatic and not showing symptoms. So that's a great sign, alright? That that that's great. I'm glad to hear that they're they are asymptomatic, but it is telling. If you're from Washington State and you bring something home and you're hearing the these stories of from the that you're like, oh, this this is definitely gonna be a pandemic, and you're like, oh, this is too close to home, right? I I I find this to be interesting. Like I'm still interested about this. We have these two residents right here in King County. Isolating at home because of the flight they uh took from South Africa. They are sitting just two seats away from the passenger who came down with the virus. This is why the person-to-person talk is serious. If you're in Seattle or King County, the health department is checking in on every checking on it on every day. They are healthy, there are no symptoms. So these people are still showing asymptomatic. But we're playing it, they're playing it safe. This isn't just a car virus rumor rumor anymore. This is a real deal public health tracking issue. If you see a news van in your neighborhood, it's probably why. But docs say you are safe to go outside and be and go about your day. I'm still intrigued why they haven't sent those two individuals that were near the individual to the quarantine, the national quarantine area. I'm definitely interested in that piece. Um very intriguing to me. Is this because but who's who's monitoring these two individuals? I mean, shouldn't they not be able to leave their home? Are they leaving their home? Are they being monitored by some type of device saying, oh, they left a house? Not like house arrest. You're gonna go stir crazy. Okay, that just it is what it is. I'm I'm very interested. I want more information on why King County Public Health did not, or even uh the CDC didn't put these two individuals at the uh national quarantine uh area. I'm very intrigued. Like, okay, so they're asymptomatic, but are they going like what if they leave their home and they go out and and in two weeks this turns into something else? Or maybe the maybe what if they go from asymptomatic to symptomatic? And they're showing signs of being tested, like maybe I'm not saying that they will, but what if they allegedly test positive for this thing and they're in their home and they went outside of their home to get groceries, to go outside. I'm not saying if you're saying this is a person-to-person situation, wouldn't you want to take the most up precaution to make sure that these individuals were quarantined properly, is what we should say. And I'm not saying what what's right or wrong. I I just want to make sure that we're far that we're not going to put ourselves in a situation where we're having a second pandemic. If you have it isolated to these small cases, let's take care of that. Because we know how people have been in the past, where people are like, oh, I'm sick, I gotta go to work, you know, oh, don't, you know, and then all of a sudden people were bringing the illness around, and you know, you have an office full of sick people coughing and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Then the pandemic hit, everyone stayed home, returned to office, the hybrid situation. You know, people were very precautious. Oh, I'm not feeling good, I'm gonna go ahead and stay home. Everyone's like, cool, yeah, do that. Then it, you know, as it kind of has worn and has done its thing, pandemic kind of ended. People continue to be polite, stay home. Hey, I'm I got a fever, I'm not feeling good, I have a cough. People were staying home. Great. Kids are getting back into the you know, the preschool thing, the daycare thing, back to school, germs are being shared, people are getting sick, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And and there feels, there seems to be a little bit of the lax in regards to, hey, I'm sick, I'm gonna stay home. I gotta push through. All fine and dandy. But now we're talking about a situation where you have two individuals who none of us know. I mean, when you start to think about the old pandemic, you talked about the the the the retirement home center in Everett where this pandemic blew up. People are like, it was it was crazy back in those days. Wild times. Not not for the faint of heart. And um I obviously they weren't, you know, leaving, everyone was kind of quarantined there and whatnot. But is the CDC as King County monitoring these two individuals on a daily and making sure that keeping tabs of them and making sure they're not exposing the public is my my my question. Because I mean, look, I mean, you're gonna be um sitting at home for a while, you're gonna get tired of being there. You know, are these people getting food dropped off to them? So it will be interesting to see. And like, hey, if you see the news vans around your your neighborhood, you know what's going on. You know, you know that these are the people that are being quarantined because that's that information definitely is not out there. Uh, if you would like to continue to get, we're gonna continue taking shout outs here uh at 775-990-5151. There um are experts that are saying that you need we need more time. You can act and you can um you need about this. Is uh let's let me explain this real quick. So this is a 4 to 42-day incubation period. That explains why we're having to wait so long to know if they are truly safe. The isolation discussion like I said, these people, you know, are being monitored. What is King County doing to keep these people monitored? Clearly, we needed someone from the King County uh health department to uh come on the show to talk about this. Um it's gonna be interesting times. Um we'll we'll continue to get your shout outs in uh at 775-990-5151. All right, to the Ballard to the Ballard Hyde Beavers, to the class of 2026 at Ballard. We see you hitting the McCall hall in June 15th. Ooh, that's coming up. Uh, a special shout out to Leo, uh, who's headed to UW Go Dogs. All right, another UW, huh? Uh shout out to uh Garfield High Bulldogs. Garfield is taking over the city in June on June 16th. Big shout out to Garfield Jazz Band Seniors. Keep the music playing. Rainier Beach Vikings late night at Macaw Hall. Go Vikings June 15th. Shout out to America. The family is so proud of you for making it to graduation. Roosevelt High School also uh in the mix on the 17th. The Rough Riders is your big day. Shout out to Sam and the crew. Don't forget to take pictures by the fountain. All right, Lincoln High, Lennox. Wallingford is celebrating and shout out to Maya at Lincoln, the first graduating class in the in that family. Let's head to the South End. The South Sound. Puala Pi Vikings. The fairground is gonna be busy on June 13th. Shout out to David. Your mom says she's bringing the loudest airhorn in the stadium. I can't wait. Oh man, that's awesome. Good uh congratulations. Emerald Ridge Jaguars, early morning ceremony at 9 a.m. Shout out to Coach Mike's senior players. Congrats on a great season and better and a better graduation. Rogers high. Big shout out to Sarah graduating just the beginning. Congrats, Sarah. They'll be at the fairgrounds uh uh on uh the 13th, so their theirs is coming up. Walker High, the Wolves. Shout out to the Wolves hitting the stage on June 12th. You guys worked hard for this. Stay hungry. Now, should we do some Eastern Washington shout-outs as well? We definitely get in some of those as well. Uh, you can send your text in at 775-990-5151. We'll continue the text shout-outs uh shortly if you want to get your shout-outs in. Now let's take a look at the bigger picture, the bigger map. Well, we're here in the Pacific Northwest doing shout-outs to the rest of the uh and doing shout-outs. The rest of the country is actually a little frustrated. There's a lot of chatter about the CDC believing it or not, they don't hold a public briefing for days after this started. Now, why aren't they? Because they haven't had any confirmed cases. Um, the CDC director for nine months has not really done much. So the Nebraska 16, there are sixteen Americans currently at the National Quarantine Center in Home Omaha, Nebraska. They were flown there directly. Now the CDC is tracing every person who sat within two rows of this suspected case on any flight coming from South Africa. Now, the fatal rate, national people are spooked by the twenty-seven to thirty percent fatality rate. This is much higher than COVID-19, which is why the pandemic talk is resurfacing. Now, if we're talking, like I said, as we were talking earlier, this this can go both ways as we continue to s look at the the evidence. And I believe even last time I remember going and having these doing these shows and having some people come on and speculate and spook and all that nonsense. But yeah, it's kind of a mortality rate of 27%. You have a 27 to 38 percent fatality rate with this. This is a lot higher, like they said, of than COVID-19. Now, the rest of the country is on the dark web. There's some of you digging around, looking at conspiracy theories, looking at different uh home remedies. You know, everyone's like, oh, the midterm election's coming up. Some people are claiming the virus was timed to disrupt the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. You know, you got the the big pharma ploy. Is big pharma trying to play into this again? The viral post from some congressional claiming that this is a bioweapon to force new rounds of vaccines. Let's fact check that. There's no huntavirus vaccine. If there were the money-making scheme, the rest of uh these people will be out there selling this thing like like tic-tacks in a in a package. And look, I mean, there is talk about the zinc and ivermectin looped in from just the 2020 uh situation as well. Doctors are screaming from the rooftops. This is a lung flooding virus. Vitamin D is great, but it won't drain your lungs in the ICU. That's what's scary, ladies and gentlemen, that this is a high this has a higher mortality rate. And and as people are going through some of these different conspiracies and doom scrolling. That is something that I haven't really done on this one. I maybe it just hasn't hit my feed. But if you are seeing some of this, send me screenshots. You can text their screenshots to me at 775-990-5151. I'd love to see these screenshots because I'm not seeing it on my feed. And I'm intrigued because you know nowadays everything's on the I mean you you see everything. You know what I mean? You're kind of like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm seeing this, I'm seeing that. Just I'm not getting any of that on my feed right now, which is kind of interesting to me. Uh we'll continue on with your uh tech shout outs as we get closer. Let's hit the eastern side of the mountains. Lewis and Clark Tigers in Spokane, Washington. Shout out to the Tigers. I hear LC Crew is planning a massive big grad party. Uh shout out to uh Lewis and Clark. Uh stay safe, guys. Uh happy congratulations to you. Ferris High School in Spokane. Big love to the South Hill. Shout out to Marcus, congrats. Scholarship, uh, congrats, Marcus. Also got a scholarship. AC Davis High Pirates. The Pirates are ready to sail. Shout out to the Mendoza family celebrating their third generation, uh, third graduation this year. Wow, man, you guys eating a ton of cake this uh graduation season. Eisenhower High School. A shout out to Elena uh at Ike. Like we said, your grandma, uh man, your grandma must really love you. She put you in there twice. Congrats. I didn't uh you gotta read these as they come in. Uh uh congratulations, Elena. Uh, you got two shout outs. Congrats, girl. Um, we'll keep the shout-outs coming in. We're gonna hit up the north, uh the north end. We're gonna hit the coastal shout-outs as well. Uh, if you'd like to get yours in, please send me a text at 775-990-5151. When I go back to the pandemic, every wearing wearing masks, and you're definitely starting to see some of that happen again. Um, you know, people wearing masks, being polite. Um, I'm not wearing a mask, it's not something that I'm doing anymore. Um, and I'm sure there's a lot of us that it's a majority uh of us aren't wearing masks, but there are some that individuals that are wearing masks. So um, yeah, I don't know if it was I always look at it as like, oh, maybe they must be sick, you know. And I know that that there's a cultural piece of some countries that are that wear masks when individuals are sick. Um and maybe we'll start to see some new um new information come in from the the the the World Health Organization and the CDC that are give that will give more guidance to this as we continue to watch this gestation period, which is a 42-day for up to a 42-day gestation period. I'm curious, especially with those individuals that are staying in Washington State that are uh not quarantined at the um national quarantine headquarters in Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska. I'm quite intrigued. I I would love to understand why the CDC is not making these two individuals go to uh go to the national quarantine. So I'll when I find more information, I'll have it posted on on the website at uh onairmario.com. Very puzzling, very very much a head scratcher, right? I mean uh yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm intrigued because yeah, I'm just intrigued. What what what's because they weren't exposed, they were semi-exposed, they were closely exposed, like how are we yeah, how are how are they playing through that and w what information I'm not seeing any information in regards to that. So um I'm intrigued though, very much intrigued on see how this will play out with the CDC and what the these two individuals who are living in Washington State that are in King County being self-quarantined. So uh shout out to you if you guys are out south quarantine. Uh big shout out to you. So let's look at the timeline of this journey of this disease virus. Patient zero. Health officials believe that the first passenger caught it on land in Argentina or Chile before boarding the the Hondias, the MV Hondias. Now the route, the ship MV Hondias left Argentina on April 1st, traveling through Antarctica and South Georgia. Now, stay with me, folks. I know everyone's like, South, you know, they're like the South Pole or Antarctica. They're like, oh, that's where they came from. All right, stay with me. The incubation period of this it takes four to forty-two days for Simpsons to show up. This is a great reason why people seem to find reasons that this ship people on the ship ham feel fine, but then got sick weeks later. Currently, here's where we're at. Eleven total cases, three deaths, countries involved, passengers from UK, US, and several European nations. Now the Washington Connection, three King County residents are under monitoring, two from the connected flight, one from the ship itself. The official WHO or CDC reports right here in front of me. If you're hearing it's a bioweapon or a car virus, here's the truth you can take to the bank. First, the name is Andy's Hontavirus, named after the mountain, not the car company. That's been around for decades. But it usually stays in the woods. The reason this news now become found its way into a ship, the MV Hondius is in the close quarters of this ship. It has done something the Hontavirus almost never does. It jumped from one human to another. If you got a fever, deep muscle ta muscle muscle aches in your thighs or back and you feel like you can't catch your breath, and you were recently in South Africa on a cruise ship, call your doctor. But if you're just driving around in your Honda and you're getting groceries at the storm Q Allop, you're safe. The only outbreak in your car is likely a coffee spill from this morning. Okay. Quick stats the emp like I said, the incubation periods. To forty-two days. Where are you gonna be in 42 days? Where were you 42 days ago? Symptoms, if you have a fever, fatigue, muscle ache, followed by shortness of breath, call your doctor. If you got a fever, like I said, call your doctor. There is no treatment for this. There's no vaccine, no specific cure. Treatment is you're gonna need supportive care, meaning doctors to help you breathe while your body fights this off. Does this mean you're gonna die? No. I'm sure most of us weren't on a cruise ship. Most of us were not. Most of us weren't on that flight. But there are an amount of individuals that were, so hopefully those are all being quarantined. Alright. Let's do one more round of shout outs as we get ready to wrap things up from the Pacific Northwest. Alright, let's go out to the Penin, let's go out to the Olympic Peninsula where you might find Bigfoot and the Olympic Peninsula. Shout out to Port Orchard or Port Orchard, Port Angeles uh Rough Riders, the folks, and the Fork Spartans. Don't let the rain stop the celebration. Shout out to Tyler in Forks, first in the family to graduate, who heading to WSU. Go Kooks. All right, congratulations. We're gonna take it to the 509 Central crew. Big love to the Moses Lake High in Quincy in Quincy, uh, the Jacks. Shout out to Sophia with an F. The trio Marios say keep cashing those dreams, Miha. Oh, that's funny. You have three Marios, huh? All right, let's take this to the Southwest. Shout out to the Union High Titans and Heritage High in Vancouver. Marcus at Union, congrats on the soccer scholarship. Congratulations. Let's check out some of the private uh schools as well. Bishop Blanch, uh Bishop Blanchett, Bishop Blanchette and South Prep, the Braves and the Panthers uh spirit is alive today. Big shout out to you guys out there. Uh, thank you for hanging out with us as well. Big shout out to Franklin High Quakers and the Chief Self Seahawks, Hinton McCall Hall. Congratulations to all of you. All right. Um, big shout out. Um, yeah, man. Continue to get those shout-outs in. Uh, so just be aware of the facts. Uh be aware um of what's going on out there. Not all of it's all true, some of it's just fake BS news. All right. Uh from the Pacific Northwest, I'd like to thank all of our affiliates, uh, KOSW, K-A-P-Y, uh, and our flagship station in Seattle, KVI. Thank you for streaming us. If you're uh following us or listening to us on the podcast, thank you so much. All the listeners, all the class of 2026 that we've got to. If I haven't had a chance to get to your shout-out, we'll get to it in the following show. Send those shout outs to 775-990-5151. From the Pacific Northwest, I'd like to thank all of our listeners. Thank you so much for my entire team, Sophia Magagna and myself, Mario Magania. Be sure to read up, be sure to look up at the sky, because you never know what you might see. Good night.

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