First Hantavirus Case On Cruise Ship Contracted Before Boarding
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The Ministry of Health (Minsal) issued a statement regarding the fatal outbreak of hantavirus detected on the cruise ship MV Hondius, whose crew members remain confined in their cabins after the death of three people resulting from this virus.The ship sailed on April 1 in the city Ushuaia, in Argentina, towards Cape Verde, in Africa.One of the records that alerted the Chilean authorities is that two of the deceased passengers, a Dutch couple, ha…
By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN en Español. Argentina's Ministry of Health is moving forward with reconstructing the itinerary of the Dutch couple considered the "index case" of the hantavirus outbreak detected on the MV Hondius cruise ship. Their journey included trips to neighboring countries before they boarded in the port of Ushuaia on April 1. The investigation is part of a strategy to try to determine the possible origin of the infections linked t…
The mouse trail was initially sought, but this may have been the wrong clue. The outbreak of hantavirus detected on the cruiser MV Hondius has eight infected, three of them confirmed. Three of those affected have died, one remains in intensive care in Johannesburg, South Africa, and another in a hospital in Switzerland. Considering that they had all shared spaces and activities, it was thought that it could be a joint infection, by inhaling stoo…
The Ministry of Health of Chile issued an official statement this Thursday regarding the cases of hantaviruses linked to the MV Hondius cruise, in which a Dutch couple died after contracting the Andean strain of the virus. According to the statement, the Ministry of Health confirmed that the primary cases transited through Chile during their tour of South America. However, it was specified that the period of incubation of the virus does not coin…
Argentine authorities suspect that the couple from Haulerwijk were the first to come into contact with the hantavirus. How did the couple come into the picture as ‘patient zero’? And five other questions.
First Hantavirus Case On Cruise Ship Contracted Before Boarding
The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that the first confirmed case of hantavirus connected to the deadly outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship happened before the passenger boarded the vessel. The expedition cruise vessel left Ushuaia on April 1 for a journey across the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Verde with around 150 passengers […]
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