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Wasn't the infection rate in the low double digits?
Like, it wasn't even properly airborne. Monkeypox did better numbers.
Ebola isn't airborne either but that doesn't seem to stop people from doing the best they can to spread it.
The guy was on a ship and quarantine was put in place very quickly. It's not that the virus sucked, we just handled it correctly.
This is what most "virus outbreaks" look like. Quickly contained and you don't hear anything about it.
The proximate cause of Ebola spread is driven by unhygienic burial practices specific to rural impoverished communities in West Africa.
Hantavirus spread is, similarly, confined to immediate family of the infected who are often the only available caretakers.
Quarantine and sanitation are highly effective at mitigating the spread of both illnesses.
A virus that wasn't so fast acting and lethal would have had more time to spread undetected.
Had this been HIV on a swingers cruise, the outcome would be very different