Dozens of passengers left hantavirus-stricken cruise ship after 1st fatality
Officials are tracing contacts across several continents after at least 8 cases were linked to the ship, including 3 deaths, the WHO said.
- More than two dozen passengers from multiple countries left a cruise ship affected by a deadly hantavirus outbreak without undergoing full contact tracing.
- Health officials warned this raised concerns about potential spread, though experts say Hantavirus is not easily transmitted between people.
- Dutch authorities are testing a flight crew member in Amsterdam who had contact with an infected passenger and later developed symptoms.
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Hantavirus Cruise Ship Outbreak: Authorities Race To Track Down 40 Passengers Worldwide
Authorities are racing to track down nearly 40 cruise ship passengers potentially exposed in a deadly Hantavirus Cruise Ship Outbreak after they left the vessel without full contact tracing and scattered across multiple countries. Oceanwide Expeditions, which operates the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, said Thursday that 29 passengers disembarked on April 24. Dutch officials, however, estimate the number could be closer to 40. Those passengers, repre…
Countries scramble to track passengers of virus-hit cruise ship
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – Countries worldwide on Thursday, May 7, scrambled to prevent further spread of the hantavirus, after an outbreak on a cruise ship, by tracking those who had already disembarked before the virus was detected and anyone in close contact with them since. Three people — a Dutch couple and a German national — died in the outbreak on the MV Hondius. Eight people, including a Swiss citizen, are suspected to have contracted …
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