2026-05-10
We had an instance back in 2019/2020 where a cruise ship had a number sick passengers (and if memory serves a few deaths) from the "Coronavirus".
Not sure how the virus made it from Wuhan to the cruise ship but then if the medical world is to be believed these pesky viruses (or should that more properly be virii?) get everywhere in no time flat.
Now in 2026 we have a reported instance of a rat virus on a cruise ship which one may suppose similarly threatens the world, rather in the same way as the earlier SARS scares, Monkeypox and whatever else never took off in the public imagination.
Is it too early for a vaccine?
Mark Playne has been crunching the AI to reveal what the ghost in the machines makes of it all.
