Virologists on hantavirus, and extreme heat at the World Cup

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Coming up, a virological voyage through what is known about the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius. Plus, scientists create the first detailed map of the smell receptors in the nose; how footballers can cope with extreme temperatures at the FIFA World Cup; and the Trump administration releases a tranche of UFO files... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:20.2	breakthroughs and talks to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology and medicine.
0:26.2	I'm Chris Smith.
0:27.6	And coming up, we review what happened with the cruise ship Hanta virus outbreak, remarkable new insights into how our smell sense is organized in our noses and the Trump administration releases
0:38.7	a tranche of UFO files. So what's in them?
0:45.7	First this week, let's catch up with what happened with the recent outbreak of Hanta virus aboard the M.V. Hondias, the expedition ship carrying 150 people that left Argentina at the beginning of April, but has since seen a number of passengers and crews struck down with this infection.
1:06.4	Now, virologists often name new viruses after where they were first found. Zika virus, for instance, was
1:12.5	initially described in Uganda's Zika forest, while the Ebola river flowing through what's now
1:17.7	the Democratic Republic of the Congo needs no explanation for the dread disease that was documented
1:22.6	there. Hantoviruses are chips off the same blog.
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