Warum? — Season 1, Episode 18: Why is the world panicking about hantavirus?
News, War & Politics, Documentary • 6 min • 1 season, 34 episodes
Episode synopsis
Several cruise passengers died after developing severe respiratory symptoms and tested positive for a rare hantavirus; while it evokes pandemic fears, WHO says hantaviruses spread far less easily than SARS-CoV-2 and this does not signal the start of a new pandemic.
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- E5Has Trump crossed the line with the Church?
- E6Why are there so few women coaches in football?
- E7Why is Spain regularising 500,000 migrants?
- E8Why is Japan shifting toward arms exports?
- E9How much AI is in the film industry?
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