ABC News⁠98%

Global race to contain hantavirus outbreak ⁠98%

5/13/2026, 12:00:29 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Negativity Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 30.7% saturation with 77 hits. Analysis detected 680 faulty-reasoning hits from 251 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 98% and a BS Rank of ⁠98% (348 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 97.90% of the video peer group.

This morning an Illinois resident is at home awaiting test results from the CDC 
after experiencing mild symptoms of the 
hantavirus. It's believed they contracted the North American strain of the disease after coming in contact with 
the disease after coming in contact with rodent droppings while cleaning. There are only roughly 30 cases of the strain a year and it is not passed from person 
to person like the Andes virus which was found on that Dutch cruise ship resulting in three deaths and leaving health officials across the world tracking passengers. 
Here in the US officials currently monitoring 36 people, 18 across 10 
states who either returned home early from the cruise or traveled on a plane with a sick passenger. None are showing signs of illness. 
In addition to the 18 Americans who were evacuated from the cruise in Spain and went straight for evaluation. 
The symptomatic passenger in a biocontainment unit in Atlanta has tested negative for hantavirus and all 16 in Omaha are symptom-free including 
the only American to test positive for the virus who remains in the biocontainment unit. 
I think we should not be surprised if there's additional cases. 
But now that we've identified all of these individuals, they've gone to their respective countries and they're appropriately being monitored, we should expect cases to drop off after that. 
Medical teams here are performing 
twice-daily symptom and fever checks. So far everyone is symptom-free. 
George 
>> Okay Victor, thanks. 
Confirmation Bias
11.6%
Anchoring Bias
17.1%
Availability Heuristic
30.7%
Representativeness Heuristic
16.7%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
11.2%
Framing Effect
2.4%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
12.7%
Pessimism Bias
6.8%
Negativity Bias
22.7%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
6.8%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
4.8%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
10.8%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
4%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
9.6%
Slippery Slope
11.6%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
20.3%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
2.4%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
29.1%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
11.6%
Appeal to Nature
11.6%
Composition/Division
6%
Anecdotal
10.8%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

251 words analyzed.

Analysis

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