5-11-26 Afternoon Rush - Hantavirus Updates & Ceasefire On 'Lifesupport'
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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The world feels like it's spinning faster by the hour. In today's afternoon episode of the Rush Hour podcast, we break down the terrifying hantavirus outbreak connected to the cruise ship crisis as multiple Americans return home for treatment and monitoring after possible exposure. One passenger has reportedly tested positive while another is showing symptoms, raising serious questions about containment, media coverage, and what happens next. We cover all the latest updates and why health officials are trying to avoid panic.
Plus, the war in Iran continues to escalate as ceasefire talks appear to be collapsing. Oil prices are surging, markets are shaky, and now President Donald Trump is pointing the finger at Democrats over the struggling economy while critics argue his handling of the conflict is making things worse. We unpack the political fallout, the economic fears, and why Americans are increasingly frustrated. Buckle up, this one goes everywhere.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour. Your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:13.8 | Good afternoon, everybody, on this Monday, May 11th, 2026. I have all of your news for your rush hour ride home. We have updates on the Hanta |
| 0:22.3 | virus. 17 Americans repatriated from the luxury expedition cruise ship, the Hontius. Well, |
| 0:29.8 | they've arrived back home and one of them has tested positive for the virus. We'll give those |
| 0:34.4 | updates. Plus, gas prices continue to rise. What is the administration |
| 0:39.1 | doing to alleviate those costs and more updates about the war in Iran? All of this and more |
| 0:45.1 | starts right now on the rush. So here it is. How about this headline? One U.S. citizen |
| 0:50.2 | tests mildly positive for hanta virus, has mild syndrome symptoms now this is a complete |
| 0:57.6 | misleading title tests mildly positive imagine going on a first date yeah i've got herpes but it's |
| 1:04.6 | only mildly positive they're going to be like check please right mildly positive means nothing so |
| 1:10.5 | the way this disease works, and I'm no |
| 1:12.8 | epidemiologists here, but from all I'm hearing, is that the fatality rate is enormous, 40 to 50%, |
| 1:20.4 | whereas COVID was like 1%. The only thing that's keeping this from a full-blown outbreak is it |
| 1:25.3 | hasn't really been anything transferring human to human, |
| 1:28.0 | but that can always change based on different strains and whether or not they always called |
| 1:34.4 | that leap, right, where it's no longer from a rodent to a human. But once it goes human to a human, |
| 1:39.1 | we're toast. And the question is, is that going to happen? So what's interesting here is with hantavirus, you have |
| 1:47.0 | this period where you just have light flu like symptoms, nothing crazy. And then all of a sudden, |
| 1:52.0 | it's like, boom, hits you like a load of bricks. So the fact that they're mildly testing positive, |
| 1:57.9 | that's rubbish. It's like you're positive. It's a positive test. |
| 2:01.4 | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Sunday that one of the 17 Americans being |
| 2:06.5 | repatriated from a hanta virus struck luxury cruise ship has tested mildly positive. Okay, so anyway, |
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