{"id":25340,"date":"2026-05-12T20:08:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/25340\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:08:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:08:01","slug":"covid-era-conspiracy-theories-accuse-bill-gates-of-creating-hantavirus-outbreak-france-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/25340\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-era conspiracy theories accuse Bill Gates of \u2018creating\u2019 hantavirus outbreak \u2022 FRANCE 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Covid-era conspiracy theories accuse Bill Gates of \u2018creating\u2019 hantavirus outbreak \u2022 FRANCE 24\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0quN21HhkRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nCovid-era conspiracy theories accuse Bill Gates of \u2018creating\u2019 hantavirus outbreak \u2022 FRANCE 24<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs the number of confirmed hantavirus cases from the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius reaches 9, social media users firmly revived Covid-19 era conspiracy theories of \u201cbioweapons\u201d and \u201cplandemics,\u201d making the online rhetoric feel eerily familiar. Among these resurrected theories, the name of American billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has once again emerged, as users claimed Gates was &#8220;planning&#8221; a pandemic or how to profit from a health crisis. Vedika Bahl explains in Truth or Fake.<br \/>\n#billgates #hantavirus #conspiracytheory<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Covid-era conspiracy theories accuse Bill Gates of \u2018creating\u2019 hantavirus outbreak \u2022 FRANCE 24 As the number of confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,27530,27529,10455,2287,2284,2289,13631,22,23,20,21,23601,1186,8972,3485,2290,16214,25268,1628,42,15672,9762,23678,23699,25281],"class_list":{"0":"post-25340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france24","8":"tag-fake-news","9":"tag-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation","10":"tag-bill-gates","11":"tag-conspiracy-theory","12":"tag-coronavirus","13":"tag-coronavirus-covid-19","14":"tag-covid-19","15":"tag-explainer","16":"tag-france-24","17":"tag-france-24-english","18":"tag-france24","19":"tag-france24-english","20":"tag-hantavirus","21":"tag-health","22":"tag-hospital","23":"tag-outbreak","24":"tag-pandemic","25":"tag-public-health","26":"tag-quarantine","27":"tag-research","28":"tag-social-media","29":"tag-vaccines","30":"tag-viral","31":"tag-virus","32":"tag-who","33":"tag-world-health-organisation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}