{"id":6916,"date":"2026-05-13T15:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:29:54","slug":"this-is-not-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6916","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not a Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is scary that hantavirus is transmitting from human to human, and not via intermediate rodent hosts as is typical. But it is not a new development. The strain detected occurs in South America, where it transmits from human to human from time to time. Such it has been for a long time, and it hasn&#8217;t turned into a global (or even a regional) pandemic. The cruise began in Argentina, so it is obvious how its passengers originally became exposed. It spread like it did because a cruise ship concentrates a lot of people into a small space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the experts claim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cnvpzgn26edo\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cnvpzgn26edo\">this is not going to turn into a pandemic<\/a>, they are correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is scary that hantavirus is transmitting from human to human, and not via intermediate rodent hosts as is typical. But it is not a new development. The strain detected occurs in South America, where it transmits from human to human from time to time. Such it has been for a long time, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6917,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions\/6917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}