The virus is rare, experts insist, but that offers little comfort to those watching stretchers leave the ship.
For Debbie Zipperian, hantavirus was not a headline but a war she barely survived. A few minutes in a dusty coop turned into organ failure, hallucinations, and two brushes with death. She woke up with a broken body and a life permanently altered, forced to relearn how to walk and think. Her story is the future every passenger fears: that a moment’s exposure can redraw the rest of your life.
