NPR⁠84%

CDC says threat of widespread outbreak of hantavirus remains low ⁠67%

By Alana Wise⁠0%

5/9/2026, 5:41:22 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Negativity Bias, and Biased Writer Voice, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 40.7% saturation with 127 hits. Analysis detected 782 faulty-reasoning hits from 312 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 60.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠67% (7,352 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 66.40% of the article peer group.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday said the agency had deep experience with the Andes strain of the hantavirus, offering assurance to the American public that there was low risk for a widespread outbreak. 
The remarks from CDC officials come as headlines about the virus — which broke out aboard a cruise ship last month — have sparked fears of a COVID-like pandemic. 
Officials speaking to reporters on Saturday stressed that transmission of the virus from person to person was rare and the risk to the American public remains "extremely low." 
Hantavirus is typically contracted when humans come into contact with rodent urine, saliva or feces. 
The Andes strain of the virus, however — which is the one currently being monitored aboard the MV Honius cruise ship — can, in rare instances, transmit person to person. 
Three people from the cruise — a Dutch couple and a German woman — have died from the virus. 
The Dutch couple is thought to have come into contact with hantavirus before boarding the ship, during a birdwatching excursion at an Argentine landfill site. 
More than two dozen American passengers were aboard the ship. 
Seven have already returned to the United States, but 17 more remain onboard, as it approaches the Spanish Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa. 
Officials said that the seven passengers who are back stateside have been monitored while at their homes and have at no point exhibited any symptoms related to the virus. 
The remaining 17 will eventually be brought back into the country and stationed inside the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where they will also be monitored. 
The CDC officials stressed that the group's time at the unit would not constitute a quarantine, as has been previously reported by CNN. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 15.4%Alana Wise: 4.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Confirmation Bias15.4%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 1.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 18.9%Alana Wise: 10.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.8%Availability Heuristic18.9%This article: 4.8%Alana Wise: 1.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic4.8%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.8%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 1.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 12.2%Alana Wise: 11.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.1%Framing Effect12.2%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 3.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 20.8%Alana Wise: 7.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Optimism Bias20.8%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 2.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 24.7%Alana Wise: 10.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.3%Negativity Bias24.7%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 3.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 3.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 8.3%Alana Wise: 2.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.7%Recency Bias8.3%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 1.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 2.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 40.7%Alana Wise: 7.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.1%Appeal to Authority40.7%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 1.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 8.3%Alana Wise: 0.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Slippery Slope8.3%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 5.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 4.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 1.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 9.3%Alana Wise: 14.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.6%Appeal to Emotion9.3%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 8.0%Alana Wise: 1.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)8.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 18.3%Alana Wise: 0.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.4%Burden of Proof18.3%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 6.1%Alana Wise: 10.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Anecdotal6.1%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 26.3%Alana Wise: 1.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)26.3%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 7.4%Alana Wise: 1.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Unattributed Quote7.4%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 21.2%Alana Wise: 4.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.1%Biased Writer Voice21.2%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 3.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alana Wise: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

312 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker19%attributed speech252writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageCenters for Disease Control and Prevention • 37 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 31 words • 0.0% coverageCenters for Disease Control and Prevention • 23 words • 100.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
60 attributed words100% of attributed speech84% writer coverage
0%32.5%65.0%Biased Writer Voice+50.2 ptsWriter: 11.5%Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: 61.7%61.7%Unattributed Quote+38.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: 38.3%38.3%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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