Timeline
01 APRDeparts Ushuaia
06 APRIndex case — first symptoms
11 APRDutch passenger dies on board
14 APRPax disembarks Tristan — later probable
24 APR30 pax leave Saint Helena. Doctor symptomatic.
26 APRDutch woman dies Johannesburg. KLM exposure.
02 MAYGerman woman dies on board. WHO notified.
04 MAYPCR: ANDV confirmed. WHO outbreak declared.
06 MAYShip's doctor evacuated to Netherlands
07 MAYKLM attendant hospitalized — NEG (window open)
10 MAYShip arrives Tenerife. Evacuation begins.
11 MAY16 Americans at Nebraska. 1 biocontainment.
12 MAYWHO briefing Madrid. 9 confirmed, 2 suspected.
R₀ 2.12 pre-isolation · 34 cases · 11 deaths
Transmission documented at 4 feet, 90 minutes.
Brief restroom crossing = 1 confirmed case.
"Prolonged contact" doctrine is a surveillance artifact — product of who gets detected in rural Andean communities, not a biological constraint.
PCF Class Reference
HERMES — Airborne, moves faster than response
CHARON — Vector-borne, control the ferry
EROS — Contact, requires proximity
HECATE — Zoonotic spillover, threshold crossing
SPHINX — Mechanism unknown or violated