An infected passenger from the cruise ship tried to board a plane to fly to Europe. A flight attendant who felt he was too sick to fly, kicked him off the plane. The flight attendant caught the virus. No kissing or body fluid exchange.
If hantavirus only spreads human-to-human via physical intimacy; How did a flight attendant contract hantavirus from a cruise ship patron? Just like the aids epidemic I warned about in the 80s; She contracted it from a cereal box a sick loved one handled midflight