From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
I think we can all see where this is going!
The signs now are that the hantavirus is not the next pandemic. But with 2026 predicted to be the hottest year on record, the hantavirus outbreak is a warning of what public health experts have long said: A hotter planet is a deadlier planet.
Rising global temperatures and the impacts they trigger — harsher heat waves, stronger storms, and wider spread of infectious diseases — endanger human health in myriad ways. The world’s top medical societies have been sounding the alarm since 2009, when the journal The Lancet called climate change “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” Lancet’s 2025 report found that climate change is responsible for “millions of unnecessary deaths a year,” with excess heat alone killing 546,000 people.
The Associated Press and CNN appear to be the first major news organizations to make the climate connection to the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that departed Argentina on April 1. CNN reported that hantavirus has long been present in the far south of South America, but its frequency has increased recently in Argentina, where cases “have almost doubled in the past year, with the country recording 32 deaths alongside its highest number of infections since 2018,” according to the Argentine health ministry. Citing local public health researchers, the AP reported that “higher temperatures expand the virus’ range because … rodents that carry the hantavirus can thrive in more places.” A historic drought that drove animals beyond their normal habitats in search of food was followed by intense rainfall. “When precipitation increases, food availability increases, rodent populations grow, and … the chance of transmission between rodents — and eventually to humans — also increases,” Raul González Ittig, a researcher at state science body CONICET, told the AP.
Three passengers on the cruise ship have died from hantavirus, and nine have contracted the virus. The World Health Organization has emphasized that the risk to the general public is very low, and there is no danger of a pandemic akin to the Covid-19 contagion that convulsed the world in 2020.
The link between hantavirus and climate change remains far from definitive; more research is needed to determine how large a role climate change played in this particular outbreak. Journalists can help by reporting on this research as it unfolds and asking public officials what steps they are taking to keep communities informed and safe.
Journalists can also alert our audience to a broader warning that scientists have long issued. As recently explained in the Journal of the American Medical Association, higher temperatures allow mosquitoes, ticks, and rodents that carry infectious diseases to spread to previously inhospitable areas, increasing the threat to humans from malaria, cholera, Lyme disease, and other maladies.
Higher temperatures are exactly what the months ahead will bring across much of the Northern Hemisphere. This year is expected to be the hottest in recorded history, thanks to an El Niño super-charging global temperatures that are already amplified by climate change. Besides threatening human health directly, this heat will also make drought and wildfires more likely.
Too often, news coverage of extreme weather disasters has been silent about climate change’s role; for example, most reporting on the mega-fires that scorched Los Angeles in 2025 focused on the roaring flames but ignored what helped spark them in the first place. CCNow’s recent white paper on the state of climate journalism applauded AP and CNN for their sustained commitment to climate coverage at a time when “climate hushing” has afflicted many other news organizations, especially in the US. That commitment is what enables the AP and CNN to see the climate connection to breaking news like the hantavirus and inform their audiences accordingly. As hotter and more extreme weather confronts much of the world in the months ahead, these AP and CNN stories offer an exemplary model for how all of journalism can do better.
You probably remember the outfit Covering Climate Now, which was set up to encourage journalists to forget the facts concerning weather events and make up stories about a “climate crisis” instead:
This sort of ludicrous alarmism which blames absolutely everything on global warming is counter productive. Anyone with even moderate intelligence can see that it is absurd to blame everything bad on global warming. Alarmist claims like this are stoking climate scepticism, not reducing it.
Of course it’s not Climate Change – everything bad that happens is due to Donald Trump.
counter productive
It’s not counter productive to the elites. They have a position to maintain, all else is relatively expendable.
It’s actually more than just AGW.
Now every virus that comes around is trying to be astroturfed into the next big pandemic.
Things that went completely unnoticed decades ago, because they were irrelevant,are now always the next big desaster – and the climate-virus is the merger of the 2 big scams for the UNO and WHO.
And if they don’t succeed with a natural outbreak, they may release some real GOF Virus to get what they want.
There’s a symmetry between GOF research, WHO and MAID in Canada. Perhaps the Fauci’s of the world have it out for us. Too bad scalping would represent cultural appropriation.
Well, Covid was used as MAID in many countries once they started
to sent the sick into nursing homes(starting in Italy) to artificially inflate
the Covid death toll(the other 2 main inflators were to systematically attribute flu related deaths to Covid and protect the Virus by removing Ivermectin and HCQ from the market)
to justify the forced vaccination on a global scale.
But it was not Fauci’s 1st time to use that trick.
When AIDS started to become a thing they forced AZT(a very effective immune system destroying poison that started as failed Cancer cure iirc) onto gays.
And those killed by the extremely destructive,expensive and otherwise useless AZT were then classified as AIDS victims.
You are more than 4 decades too late with that special haircut idea.
Needles to say that it made Fauci filthy rich.
And they use the trick also in the AGW scenario – here they call the mandatory MRNA vaccines and AZT renewables(also mandatory).
Now in terms of cultural appropriation – I have a hard time to pin down who the appropriater actually is?The European or the Asian colonizers?: as the term scalpe is from french origin.
At the very least, Fauci should be tried for something, unfortunately he was pardoned by Biden’s autopen.
Perhaps mankind’s inhumanity to man seems is universal so needn’t be culturally appropriated.
Fauci is an old man.
It’s too late to put him on trial.
He’d be 90 before the trial is over.
Keep in mind that Biden didn’t faced charges 2 years ago for classified documents because of his age(yet fit enough for president) and Biden is 2 years younger.
Confiscating his families money would do.
And Autopen?That’s some real banana republic stuff. It was not signed by the president = illegal.
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html
“The Lancet” was bought and paid for by the elitists and catastrophists decades ago…
The question is “WHY?”
Why did the National Socialists buy the Völkischer Beobachter? To pump out the propaganda.
Why did Ghislaine Maxwells father try to monopolize scientific literature in UK,
or Springer in Germany?
Who controls the Spice controls the Universe.
And Spice is the flow of Information,Energy and Money.
And the crazier the Agenda, the higher the level of control has to be to succeed.
Nice-but probably missed-reference. Dune is likely prophetic in many ways; a Butlerian Jihad would be most helpful.
I just happened to read a Snopes article claiming that in 1949 Einstein warned about the wealthy monopolizing information access and thus controlling what voters know or think they know. It certainly seems to be the case with climate and gun control. I frequently have comments rejected, or deleted after publication, on MSN and they have NEVER replied to my numerous requests to be specific about just what community guideline I have violated. I have no way of knowing about foreign policy and economics, but it would seem likely that those areas are being manipulated also.
You don’t violate any guidelines, you simply didn’t go along with the Agenda, and this is never written in any guideline – that’s why you get no response.
If you are interested in foreign policy stuff MSM won’t help anyway.
Go for alternatives like Alexander Mercouris.
CCNow’s motto: “Helping journalists see climate connections where none exist”, and AP’s and CNN’s motto: “Makin’ stuff up about climate so we don’t have to go out and get a real job”.
Virology fact: Hantaviruses were first recognised in last quarter of the 20th century, first in Korea during Korean war.
It is a zoonosis, infection by virus naturally and normally living in non-human species.
Measles, influenza, TB and HIV all came from animals. (Covid came from biolab courtesy of CCP and NIAID, not the same thing)
As human population expansions and migrations make new contact with the wild, this will keep happening.
“Virology fact: Hantaviruses were first recognised in last quarter of the 20th century, first in Korea during Korean war.”
That would be the last half, not quarter.
What’s a generation between friends? I’m sure everything else he said is true.
Thanks. I used the plural factually, the widespread existence of this specific virus group in multiple other places.
Why didn’t the “outbreak” in 1993 cause hysteria? About 20 people died in the States.
People attach importance to how often they are reminded about a problem.
Creating Climate Anxiety Now.
This is being driven by WHO, who else (geddit?)
“Yesterday, almost 2,000 people, mostly young children, died of malaria because they could not access effective and relatively cheap treatment quickly enough.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 10,000 to 100,000 hantavirus cases occur every year, spread across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. The current media coverage and WHO news conferences therefore concern about one thousandth of the cases expected this year. Europe averages about 2,000 to 5,000 – they simply have not been newsworthy.
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Why the pictures of hazmat-suited emergency response crews and desperate contact tracing when we don’t usually notice? Why is the Director-General of the entire WHO spending so much time on this, when diseases of poverty are rising and basics such as nutrition funding are falling? A fascinating question.
Why is the WHO Driving a Hantavirus Panic?
Since covid fizzled out….
“The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 10,000 to 100,000 hantavirus cases occur every year … “
Translation: “We don’t know how many hantavirus cases occur every year, but the number is not zero … ” which is fine. But … is that number concentrated in one or two cities or in one country or scattered around the world by our large and very efficient system of airlines and airports? Our response depends on knowing this.
This was in a confined space – a boat. The perfect horror story…
“To sail a darkling sea” Part of a really scary series of novels.
Is it WHO or a cabal of powerful people who want to blame global warming and Trump for all the problems in the world and thus regain the power they lost when Trump got re-elected?
AI story tip – what database?
Rogue AI ‘Helper’ Deletes Company’s Database After Deciding to Think for Itself
“Dude!” he wrote on X. “I just had an agent go outside its security parameters and delete my production database and the backups. What the hell?”
Why was an “AI” given access to production systems? That should all have been done on dev systems, then moved when it was deemed proper, by humans.
And why weren’t the backups air gapped so that they were inaccessible from the production environment at all?
Testing in a sandbox and air gapped backups have been known best practices for decades. The article should be less about a condemnation of AI producing unexpected results and more about idiots abandoning best practices.
That reminds me of the excellent xkcd comic “Little Bobby Tables“.
New diseases have been the sirens song of the Climate crazies for as long as I can remember. From the late 80s forward new diseasewas the golden calf that they could bring to every doorstep to convince people that climate was changing and it was their fault. In some ways that’s what Covid was about. Mother nature was not cooperating, and so she needed a little push. We will see more of this going forward because at their core, the people pushing this think 1 million dead barely counts as a good start.
The complete list of things yet to be blamed on climate change:
1) A bad hair day.
2) Poking yourself in the eye.
3) Stubbing your toe on the way to the bathroom at night.
Not true! “Bad hair” results from the increased humidity caused by global warming (no questions allowed, since both floods and droughts are ’caused’ by this catastrophic trend)
Poking yourself in the eye clearly is a reflexive response to the increased irritation of the conjunctiva and cornea due to global warming-enhanced pollution.
Still working on the 3rd item… /sarc off
You stub your toe because the increased variability of high and low pressure zones is disorienting and amplified by being in a semi-conscious sleep state which occurs more often due to sleep deprivation driven by increased stress from worrying about climate change.
Got ’em all covered! Nothing escapes the dread grasp of AGW!?!
On a serious note, where is all the comparative alarm about a REAL health issue emerging in the Congo? Apparently, unless they can support their agenda, most “news” organizations don’t care if there is a problem killing people in other places.
What to know about the Ebola outbreak blamed for scores of deaths in Congo
https://apnews.com/article/ebola-congo-ituri-africa-virus-d59a194e6032e1783b6085b56d84b0f0?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=680c18429a7cfc4ffe0d324f
Hantavirus, by comparison, is blamed for “…32 deaths alongside its highest number of infections since 2018,” What’s a factor of 30 or so compared to keeping the frenzy going? Since 2018, Ebola is blamed for “…kill[ing] more than 1,000 people” (how “more” does it take to get the attention of the “news?”)
Of course, this is happening in a remote area of the Congo, with poor people, poor roads, poor communications and limited – if any – sanitary facilities. Not worth of lot of clicks, so it’s ignored…
Ituri is in a remote eastern part of Congo with poor road networks, and is more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the nation’s capital, Kinshasa.
Armed gangs slaughtering entire villages don’t get coverage if they happen in Africa either. As for Ebola, it spreads and kills so fast that the entire village is wiped out. Unless someone already infected left to walk (no roads) to the next village and got there before the virus killed them, the outbreak is self contained. If it ever gets loose in a densely population city however, that could be very, very, bad.
I’d rate that another POSITIVE if it wasn’t so negative a fact…
To be truly effective, the Climapocalypse Propaganda has to panic the useful idiots and sheeple so that they can be maneuvered at will! In retrospect the Covid-19 panic-demic seems to have been the largest government mis-information and indoctrination program in human history. To keep the public cowed and cowering, the PTB will promote any crisis to their advantage; BAMN and all!
The ACA has apparently destroyed the U.S. healthcare system, and what we are being fed now is pharmaceutical cocktail designed to keep us unhealthy and more easily controlled!
That claim doesn’t square with the fact that more people die from extreme cold than from extreme heat.
It’s only deadlier to snowcones.
Yes, Summer is just around the corner and it will almost certainly be at least 0.02°C warmer than last Summer. Meteorological forecasts are reliable. Just look at how accurate last year’s Atlantic hurricane forecast was.
Unless the rodents are adapted to higher elevations and/or lower temperatures.
A human being? An empty fire suppression reservoir? People building in a fire-prone biome with fire-adapted plants that burn readily?
Apparently, CCNow isn’t aware that the mosquito is the unofficial state bird of Alaska.
I thought the threat of malaria returning to northern climes (where it used to be common) was the warning?
(OH! I forgot. Malaria hasn’t been getting recent headlines but hantavirus has. My bad.)
I’m surprised it took the media and other chronic alarmists so long to equate the limited shipboard hantavirus with climate change, and it’s a safe bet that whenever another disease temporarily flares up human activity causing global warming will be to blame. It’s also worth noting that the above article included details of how the predicted super El Nino was already occurring and its effects were on the brink of causing more heat waves, violent storms pandemics, deaths and you-name-it. It’s this type of reporting that makes the greater part of global populations scoff at climate alarmism and continue their lives with business as usual.