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Could Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus
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After three people died on a cruise ship struck by a hantavirus, authorities are actively tracking down 29 people who had left the ship.
Key facts
- Contact-tracing apps were a global effort starting in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic
- There is no use of apps for this hantavirus outbreak,” Emily Gurley, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, wrote in an email response to WIRED
- After three people died on a cruise ship struck by a hantavirus, authorities are actively tracking down 29 people who had left the ship
- It’s a long, arduous, global process to find and notify people who might be at risk of infection
Summary
Hey, wasn’t there supposed to be an app for that? Contact-tracing apps were a global effort starting in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. “There is no use of apps for this hantavirus outbreak,” Emily Gurley, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, wrote in an email response to WIRED. On a smaller scale of infection like this, officials have to start at the source (an infected individual), then go person-by-person, confirming where they went and who they might have come into contact with.