It's Friday, May 8th, 2026, and this is Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast.

I'm narrator, Chris Elkins, giving voice to today's daily article written by chief vision officer and cultural theologian, Dr. Jim Denison.

Antiviruses, named after a river in South Korea, are a family of more than 20 different viral species.

Almost all are linked to infection by rodents, typically rats and mice, through dried urine and droppings.

One strain, however, known as the Andes virus, is thought to spread by human-to-human transmission, although rarely.

In late 2018, an outbreak in Argentina was traced back to a single person who is thought to have unwittingly spread it to 34 confirmed cases with 11 deaths.

I'm sure you know, a cruise ship called M.V. Hondias has made

headlines this week because of another suspected Hanna virus outbreak on board that has killed

three people so far and made several others very sick. Health officials in at least a dozen

countries are now monitoring dozens of passengers who disembarked from the ship

before the outbreak was fully understood. At least seven of them are Americans who returned home.

Should you be worried? Since antivirus is difficult for humans to transmit, one health official assured us,

quote, there's no need for a concern over a global outbreak.

According to another, there's really no risk to anyone who was not on that ship.

But in a metaphorical sense, we're all on that ship.

From Ted Turner's death to Jeffrey Epstein's possible suicide note, to tornadoes that

devastated Southern Mississippi, and a deadly volcano eruption,

mortality is in the headlines today. And it will be again tomorrow. Here's why this news

is not such bad news for believers. The Washington Post reported this week on a promising new

depression therapy that focuses on finding paths to joy.

The article notes that while depression treatments seek mostly to decrease negative emotions,

a recent study found that increasing positive ones might be more effective.

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