CLASSIFIED · CASE FILE V-1993 · DECLASSIFIED FOR PUBLIC REVIEW · LIVE FEED
FILE 01 · Verified · Sourced · Cited
The virus they MISLABELLED
In May 1993, a healthy young man on the Navajo Nation collapsed and died within days. By summer, the CDC had a name for the disease — and a quieter one for the people it killed first.
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38%Case Fatality (HPS)
33Years · No Vaccine
39US States · Confirmed
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Section 02 · Live tracker
Where the virus actually is.
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Twenty-two verified locations.
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Tier 1 · Documented human outbreak / endemic
Tier 2 · Documented cases / surveillance
Tier 3 · Animal reservoir documented (no human cases)
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Section 03 · The Investigation
Three pieces of evidence the news cycle let slip.
FILE 1993
Four Corners · USA
The outbreak they almost called by the wrong name
The first North American hantavirus outbreak ran for weeks under labels including "unexplained respiratory illness" and "Navajo flu" before the CDC and the Navajo Nation agreed on a neutral name. The virus is now called Sin Nombre — Spanish for "no name."
CDC MMWR · May 1993 · cdc.gov/mmwr
FILE 1996
El Bolson · Argentina
The only hantavirus on Earth that spreads person to person
The 1996 El Bolson cluster was a peer-reviewed outbreak of Andes virus where transmission between people in close quarters was documented for the first time. Andes virus remains the only hantavirus with confirmed human-to-human spread.
Wells et al. · Emerging Infectious Diseases, CDC, 1997
FILE 2026
Active · World Health Organization
The playbook the public has never read
The WHO R&D Blueprint lists priority pathogens and the triggers that escalate a response. Hantaviruses sit on its extended watch list. The document is public. It is searchable. It is not on the news.
WHO R&D Blueprint · who.int
Section 04 · By the numbers
Verified figures. Cited sources.
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Case Fatality Rate · Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) · CDC
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Cumulative confirmed HPS cases · United States · 1993 – Present · CDC
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US States with at least one confirmed HPS case · CDC surveillance
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Licensed human hantavirus vaccines available in the US or UK
Section 05 · Watch list
The references nobody opens.
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CDC · MMWR · 1993"Outbreak of acute illness — southwestern United States, May 1993" — MMWR Volume 42 No. 21Open Source
EID · CDC · 1997Wells et al., "Andes virus person-to-person transmission" — El Bolson clusterPeer-Reviewed
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▌ HANTAVIRUS WATCH · CDC CONFIRMS HPS CASES ACROSS 39 US STATES · ▌ ANDES VIRUS · ONLY HANTAVIRUS DOCUMENTED TO SPREAD PERSON-TO-PERSON · ▌ WHO BLUEPRINT · HANTAVIRUSES ON EXTENDED WATCH · ▌ NO LICENSED HUMAN VACCINE AS OF 2026 · ▌ 38% CASE FATALITY RATE IN CONFIRMED HPS · ▌