Hantavirus brings back old conspiracy theories: It’s not a new pandemic, nor a mystery virus, nor cured with zinc
8 May 2026 at 09:22
The hantavirus outbreak on the luxury cruise ship MV Hondius has reignited old hoaxes and conspiracy theories on social media. As with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, hordes of misinformation and seemingly serious claims, lacking any scientific basis, have once again spread around this new outbreak, which is of a completely different scale and nature than the pandemic of six years ago.

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