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The hantavirus outbreak is reviving Covid-era conspiracy theories
The Covid-19 pandemic left an infrastructure of influencers who have built their platforms around health misinformation.
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Personnel in protective suits walking towards the cruise ship MV Hondius docked in the port of Granadilla de Abona in Spain, on May 11.
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Teddy Rosenbluth and Steven Lee Myers
Influencers and others on social media have seized on the hantavirus outbreak to revive disinformation that sowed distrust during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Some users on social platform X have called the outbreak, which began on a Dutch cruise ship and was first reported to the World Health Organization in May, a hoax designed to influence a new round of elections in the United States, or have falsely claimed that hantavirus is a side effect of the Covid-19 vaccine.
