Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories Are Already Spreading Online

Conspiracy theorists, wellness influencers and grifters have already started promoting wild claims about the hantavirus outbreak that began aboard the MV Hondius, a cruise ship on the Atlantic.

Some conspiracy theorists compared the outbreak to the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming it was another effort to control the global population, while others pushed a false narrative that the COVID-19 caused hantavirus. Many others promoted ivermectin as a treatment, using the incident as a way to sell emergency medical kits featuring the antiparasitic drug typically used as a horse dewormer.

In more recent days, many of these same people spreading conspiracy theories have promoted the baseless and antisemitic claims that the entire incident is a false flag orchestrated by Israel.

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