It's Thursday, May 14th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions. It's the gist. I'm Mike Pesca.

Happy junta virus Thursday. So let's get this virus right. You've been hearing humans, can't really pass the virus onto other humans, especially not in close contact.

But you need some mouse. And not any mouse, you need a specific mouse.

We got some of these mice out west, but it's the Argentinian mice. He leaves behind certain

things, certain legacies that cause the junta virus. It is his peepee and it is poo-poo.

And how do you get the Hoonta virus?

Mice, poop-poo-pipi.

That is what the UC San Francisco doctor in a lab coat says in the very first video that came

up when I looked at Hoontovirus human transmission.

Humans are not reservoir for hontovirus infection.

They can get infected by exposure to deer mice, but they're unable to pass,

they do not pass the disease from human to human. There's no, there, there have been no

documented cases of human to human transmission from honto virus infection. Turns out that video from

2013 was wrong, wrong. Here's the New York Times headline today. Hunter virus doesn't spread easily,

but officials may be downplaying risks. The virus is clearly far less contagious than the coronavirus.

Scientists agree. Even that guy, whose maybe opinion shouldn't count. But they have found cases

where it is spread among people without direct contact. You have to be in close contact

with someone who has a lot of symptoms, says Dr. J. Badacaria quoted in the New York Times,

but that doesn't seem to comport with the biggest study where in Argentina, dozens of

dozens of people fell ill after being in contact and sometimes

not close contact with other people. Now, we should note that none of the 82 health workers

who cared for patients during that incident became infected, even though many of them did not

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