Voilà... souche Hantavirus connue... pas un GoF.
Virus classique a priori.
La première séquence complète du hantavirus du MV Hondius est 99 % identique à une souche isolée chez un patient en Argentine en juin 2018.
Taux de mutation normal : 10,4 SNV/an (substitutions nucléotidiques par an), parfaitement dans la fourchette attendue pour un hantavirus naturel (1 à 12 SNV/an).
Pas de signature de Gain-of-Function (GoF) visible pour l’instant.
Aucun site furine ajouté, aucun réassortiment suspect, aucun motif nucléotidique inhabituel. C’est une souche sauvage classique d’Amérique du Sud qui a trouvé un environnement favorable (bateau confiné + passagers âgés).
Pas de quoi devenir hystérique...
Actualización de la evacuación:
🇪🇸 14 a Madrid ✔️
🇫🇷 5 a Francia ✔️
🇨🇦 4 a Canadá ✔️
🇳🇱 26 a Países Bajos ✔️
🇬🇧 22 a Reino Unido ✔️
🇮🇪 2 a Irlanda ✔️
🇹🇷 3 a Turquía ✔️
Próximos vuelos: 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇳🇱
In case anybody missed it, France is actively preparing for a post Pax Americana world.
In the last 6 months:
∙ Aircraft carrier “France Libre”: 80,000-ton nuclear carrier, largest warship ever built in Europe announced, €10-12 billion
∙ Nuclear arsenal expansion: first warhead increase in 30+ years, stockpile size now classified, forward-basing on allied territory authorized
∙ European nuclear umbrella: “forward deterrence” doctrine with 8 partners (Germany, UK, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Denmark)
∙ UK-France nuclear pact: joint strategy consultations, joint submarine patrols, joint R&D since July 2025
∙ 140 Rafale sold to India: 26 Rafale Marine ($7.5B, April 2025) + 114 Rafale for air force ($39B, cleared January 2026), largest Indian arms deal ever
∙ World’s 2nd largest arms exporter: 9.8% global share (SIPRI, March 2026), up 21%, replacing Russia
∙ Gold repatriation: 129 tonnes sold at the NY Fed, repurchased in Paris, entire 2,437-tonne reserve now in France, €12.8B profit
∙ €36B defense spending increase: budget to reach €64B by 2027, two years ahead of schedule
∙ Strait of Hormuz: leading EU escort mission, 19 of 23 major warships deployed to Mediterranean/Gulf. On April 3, a French-owned CMA CGM vessel became the first Western European ship to transit the strait since Iran closed it
∙ New SSBN “L’Invincible”: next-generation nuclear ballistic missile submarine announced
∙ JEWEL program: sovereign European space-based missile early warning system
∙ ELSA initiative: Franco-British-German long-range conventional strike missile program
∙ SAMP/T NG air defense: next-gen surface-to-air system, Denmark and Ukraine already buyers
∙ 14 EPR2 nuclear reactors planned: largest nuclear construction program in Western Europe
∙ Africa strategy reset: new Africa-France Summit in Nairobi, post-withdrawal from Sahel
∙ 2025 National Strategic Review: new strategic objective on scientific and technological sovereignty (AI, quantum, nuclear propulsion)
Ready to lead Europe into a path of independence.
Vive la France, vive l’Europe
🚗 Le groupe Renault parie sur les voitures électriques petites et très bon marché en lançant en avril sa Twingo 100% électrique à moins de 20.000 euros, la moins chère de France et parmi les moins chères d'Europe.
➡️ https://t.co/KK4UMqfRcP
Le "Richelieu" ? Le "François Mitterrand" ? Le "Simone Veil" ? Emmanuel Macron va dévoiler le nom du futur porte-avions géant (il pèsera 77.000 tonnes contre 42.000 pour le Charles de Gaulle)
https://t.co/s1hXl63QYS
La force de l��engagement.
La maîtrise du geste.
La puissance du collectif.
Au service de l’excellence aérienne 🇫🇷
#avgeek #aviation #Rafale #arméefrançaise
🔴 🗣️ Coût du déploiement du porte-avions : "On dit que le Charles-de-Gaulle, c'est 50.000 euros de l'heure donc en multipliant pour une journée, on va dire que c'est à peu près un million d'euros", indique notre journaliste @AlbanMikoczy.
#CestTouteLaQuestion#Canal16
"The so-called French grasshopper has been paying for the European ants all along" 🇫🇷🇪🇺
President @EmmanuelMacron's speech at Île Longue marks a historic turning point. For the first time, France openly acknowledges that its nuclear deterrent protects not just its own territory — but Europe as a whole.
Seven EU member states have now recognized that European security rests, in part, on the French nuclear strike force. An implicit admission that France has been footing part of their bill — something many partners had long denied.
Since 1945, France has invested between €400–450 billion (in today's money) to build, maintain and modernize its deterrent: ballistic missile submarines, warheads, airborne components, infrastructure, research. This is not accounting vanity. It's a structural strategic choice, made at enormous budgetary and political cost.
While France was making that bet, the European ants were investing — sheltered under the American nuclear umbrella — in their welfare, competitiveness, and infrastructure. That was their right. But they paid a different price: strategic alignment with Washington, normative influence, dependency.
Europe has lived with a silent asymmetry: one actor paying for continental stability; others outsourcing the nuclear function.
The Île Longue speech makes that asymmetry visible — and political, in the best sense.
France has no interest in "billing" its partners. But it must assert its singularity: full nuclear sovereignty, massive financial effort, explicit extension of that guarantee to European security.
Three workstreams now open up — political recognition by the 26, a budgetary reckoning within the Stability Pact, and an end to the simplistic fable of virtuous European ants vs. the spendthrift French grasshopper.
The European ants under-invested in their own security. The so-called French grasshopper paid alone — for everyone.
This window won't stay open long. Europe must acknowledge what France has already built, already paid for, and will need to invest in further.
That contribution deserves recognition commensurate with what it delivers to the continent.
🇫🇷🇪🇸🇺🇸 FLASH | Emmanuel Macron exprime sa "solidarité" au Premier ministre espagnol Pedro Sanchez après les "menaces" commerciales de Donald Trump. (Élysée)
"Quand on partage avec un pays une monnaie, une politique commerciale, un marché commun, on s'attend à la même solidarité que l'Espagne a eue avec le Danemark pour le Groenland."
L'Espagne furieuse contre l'Allemagne qui ne l'a pas défendue face à Trump. https://t.co/SaYBWhlOVb