Hantavirus Patient Now On Life Support, As Number of Cases Grows
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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The French woman who was medically cleared to fly home from the Hantavirus cruise ship, is now in “the final stage of supportive care” according to doctors. It is a frightening and quick turn of events, as world health officials say to expect more cases over the coming days and weeks. As of this recording, the number of suspected cases has risen to 11, with 9 confirmed cases around the world. We go over how each country is monitoring and testing passengers and any known contacts.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. It is Wednesday, May 13th, and we wanted to give you a quick update on what's |
| 0:10.9 | happening with the Haanta virus investigation. We have increased number of cases. And in one of |
| 0:17.9 | those situations, there's a woman right now in France who is in dire, even life-threatening condition. |
| 0:24.6 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:27.4 | All right, Robs, we keep getting updates every day. |
| 0:29.5 | These are, this is pretty significant. |
| 0:31.3 | The number of cases we're talking about has gone up to 11. |
| 0:34.3 | We need to explain first, Robes, what the WHO considers an actual case. There's a reported |
| 0:41.1 | case that then goes to a situation of being a confirmed case, but they all get lumped into being |
| 0:46.2 | the same case. So let's start with that. 11 cases now is what it's going up. Correct. Nine are |
| 0:51.4 | confirmed. 11 in total because there are two suspected cases. |
| 0:56.5 | And we've seen these numbers growing, the suspected cases going into the confirmed cases |
| 1:01.9 | category and then new suspected cases emerging. |
| 1:05.4 | The latest confirmed case came out of Spain. |
| 1:08.7 | So look, the numbers are going to rise. And of significance, we heard |
| 1:12.8 | from the World Health Organization yesterday. First of all, this always makes me nervous, announcing |
| 1:18.5 | mission accomplished. Literally, they put it in writing. No, they did. Yes, they did. No, they did. |
| 1:23.7 | Was there a banner? They were, well, they put it out on X, but this was in, I know it was in |
| 1:29.7 | connection to getting everyone off the ship. |
| 1:32.3 | But I just, when we hear mission accomplished and we're still in the middle of this |
| 1:35.9 | outbreak that we're figuring out, always just, please don't tempt fate. |
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