Editor’s Note: Hantavirus Pandemic Theater seems to be potentially in play right now, which is why I am reluctant to post articles that come across as fearmongering. I think it’s at best a nothingburger and at worst a dress rehearsal for a future release, but there’s an outside chance that this is the “Disease X” play by the globalists, which is why I’m okay with the article by Michael Snyder below. Know what’s possible but be rooted in the truth and never be fearful. Those of us who have read our Bibles know how the story ends. With that said, here’s Snyder…
(End of the American Dream)—If hantavirus starts spreading all over the world, the level of panic that we will witness will be unbelievable. The Andes strain is the only known version of hantavirus for which human to human transmission is possible. Even with that strain, human to human transmission is not supposed to be easy. But human to human transmission seems to be very easy for the version of hantavirus that has been spreading on the MV Hondius. So what in the world is going on here?
It is possible that the Andes strain of hantavirus has mutated into a form that is easier to pass from person to person. If that is the case, that will be bad news.
It is also possible that a highly modified strain of hantavirus has been released on purpose. If that is the case, that will be very bad news.
As I discussed on Friday, there are a couple of factors that make hantavirus such a potential danger. First of all, hantavirus has a very long incubation period. The CDC website says that the maximum incubation period is 8 weeks, but the mainstream media is telling everyone that it is 6 weeks.
In either case, that is a really long incubation period.
Those that have already left the MV Hondius could have exposed thousands of others to hantavirus without even realizing it, and in turn all of those people could have exposed hundreds of thousands of others to hantavirus without even realizing it.
And it could potentially be weeks before those that have been infected start exhibiting symptoms.
The other huge reason why hantavirus is such a potential danger is because it has a very high death rate. It is being widely reported that the death rate for the Andes strain can be up to 40 percent.
In this case, three of the confirmed or suspected cases have already died…
There have been at least 10 confirmed or suspected cases of hantavirus linked to the outbreak on the ship, the MV Hondius, including three fatalities: A Dutch couple and a German woman. Patients involved in the hantavirus outbreak have tested positive for the Andes strain, which can be transmitted from person to person.
Over the weekend, we didn’t get much news about this outbreak, but now there have been some very alarming developments.
On Monday, we learned that a Spanish citizen has tested positive for hantavirus after being evacuated from the MV Hondius…
One Spaniard who is quarantining in Madrid after being evacuated from MV Hondius has provisionally tested positive for hantavirus, Spain’s health ministry says.
He is asymptomatic and in good general health, with final results known in the coming hours, the ministry adds.
We have also just learned that a French woman has tested positive and that her condition is “deteriorating”…
The French passenger began to develop symptoms for the pathogen while on board a plane to Paris on Sunday.
She later tested positive for the virus with her condition deteriorating as the plane landed in the French capital, according to French Health Minister Stephanie Rist.
The woman has been placed in strict isolation as the four other French passengers she was evacuated alongside go through tests.
There is no cure for hantavirus, and so if her condition is rapidly getting worse that is not a good sign at all.
Apparently she tried to tell the doctors onboard the MV Hondius that she was sick, but they told her that it was “probably just anxiety”…
A French woman who tested positive for hantavirus after she was evacuated from a cruise ship reported symptoms to doctors onboard but was told it was probably just anxiety, the Spanish health minister has said.
Javier Padilla Bernáldez said the woman, who had been travelling on the ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak, had been suffering flu-like symptoms but they appeared to be getting better and she did not have a fever. The World Health Organization later said the woman was in a “very critical” condition.
Because this disease can have such a long incubation period, I think that a lot more cases are going to emerge in the days ahead.
17 Americans that were just evacuated from the MV Hondius have been brought back to the United States, and one of them has now tested positive…
Seventeen Americans and a dual British-U.S. citizen evacuated from the cruise ship hit with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus arrived in the U.S. early Monday.
One American on the repatriation flight “tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus,” the strain involved in this outbreak, and another began showing symptoms, the Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday night.
Both passengers were “travelling in the plane’s biocontainment units out of an abundance of caution,” HHS said. The passenger who tested positive was not experiencing symptoms, according to a statement from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Most of the passengers that were brought back to the United States will be monitored at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, but two of them were flown to Atlanta…
The flight to the U.S. landed at Eppley Airfield in Omaha, and a convoy, ambulance and multiple buses took passengers early Monday to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where 16 will stay for monitoring.
Two other passengers were flown to Atlanta, where the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is based, for further assessment and care, said the CDC’s Brendan Jackson, acting director of the Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology.
Personally, I don’t think that the passengers that are leaving the cruise ship now are a major issue because they will be closely watched.
But the 32 passengers that disembarked at St. Helena on April 24th could potentially be a huge problem.
Many of them just went back to living their normal lives, and they could have spread this version of hantavirus to countless numbers of people by now.
For example, a YouTuber named Ruhi Çenet that was a passenger on the cruise ship actually attended a very crowded wedding in Istanbul on May 3rd…
If you attended a recent wedding with YouTuber Ruhi Çenet in Istanbul, then you may want to get checked for the deadly hantavirus before it’s too late!
Here’s the scoop … Çenet was one of 147 passengers and staff aboard the doomed MV Hondius cruise, which is now being investigated for a suspected hantavirus outbreak by the World Health Organization. During the trip in April, three passengers died, possibly from hantavirus, which is an infectious disease typically spread through contact with rats and other rodents.
On May 3, Çenet attended the crowded wedding in Istanbul, Turkey — and he caught a lot of heat from people online after a photo surfaced on social media showing him at the event.
That incident alone could make containment of this outbreak impossible.
Because hantavirus has such a long incubation period, we may not know how serious this outbreak is until it is too late.
But for now, our health authorities are insisting that everything is just fine…
“It’s just not true,” Oz said. “The country is prepared, and the CDC is focused on it, and the agency is well aware of the opportunities to actually treat this problem, not just try to prevent in the future, but treat if it happens.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. added, “We have this under control, and we’re not worried about it.”
Kennedy added, “As soon as we determined that the virus was out there, we issued an alert.”
And President Trump is telling us that “we’re in very great shape”…
President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed concerns about the hantavirus and about the impact that the U.S. leaving the World Health Organization might have on its spread.
Trump called the U.S. handling of the deadly virus “fine.” Asked by USA TODAY whether he had regrets over leaving the WHO, the president said, “No, I’m glad” to have left.
“The thing with this one is it’s much harder to catch,” said Trump of hantavirus when speaking to reporters in the Oval Office. “It seems like it’s not easy to spread, in fact it’s in certain ways very hard to spread. We’ve lived with it for many years and we think we’re in very great shape.”
Hopefully they are right.
Hopefully there is absolutely nothing to be concerned about.
If this version of hantavirus is the exact same version of the Andes strain that scientists have always known about, it is extremely unlikely that this outbreak will turn into a major global pandemic.
But if the Andes strain has mutated or someone has decided to release a highly modified strain, we really could have a major emergency on our hands.
Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
