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Hantavirus: Race to Trace Passengers Who Left MV Hondius at St Helena
The WHO says eight cases have been identified on board, while authorities contact passengers who traveled to several countries after disembarking.
- Health authorities are urgently tracing passengers who disembarked the MV Hondius at St Helena on April 24 after a hantavirus outbreak emerged, as the ship remains off the coast of Cape Verde with nearly 150 people onboard.
- The MV Hondius departed Ushuaia, Argentina on April 1 with 130 passengers; three people died during the voyage, and the World Health Organization has identified eight total cases, with two deaths still under investigation.
- Oceanwide Expeditions confirmed 30 people disembarked at St Helena, including three individuals evacuated Wednesday, while the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment requested travelers remain "available for monitoring."
- Fourteen Spanish passengers will undergo up to 45 days of quarantine in Madrid, while the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is actively testing and monitoring exposed Americans.
- The cruise liner is expected to dock in the Canary Islands this weekend, and while hantavirus primarily spreads through rodent waste, officials are investigating rare possibilities of human-to-human transmission.
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Proof of the excellence of the University Hospitals of Geneva, it is one of its laboratories that has just identified the strain of hantavirus that caused three deaths on the MV Hondius, a cruise ship passed by Argentina and South America.
The cruise ship stopped in the Atlantic before the outbreak of the Hantavirus. It is now clear how many people left the "MV Hondius" there. Further suspected cases are being tested.
From the Dutch cruise ship "MV Hondius" - with the deadly Hantavirus outbreak - considerably more passengers left early than previously known. Worldwide contact persons are now being searched.
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