Casino Beats: hantavirus betting — viable hedging or step too far for prediction markets?

Polymarket and Kalshi opened hantavirus pandemic betting markets after the MV Hondius cluster, with over $2.7M traded on Polymarket. Analysis weighs whether such markets aid expert-opinion aggregation and economic hedging or create perverse incentives on catastrophic events.

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hantavirus