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KLM Flight Attendant Being Tested for Hantavirus After Showing Mild Symptoms
Dutch authorities are tracing flight contacts as the attendant is isolated in hospital with mild symptoms and tested for hantavirus.
- On Thursday, a KLM flight attendant was hospitalized in Amsterdam for hantavirus testing after showing mild symptoms, while a second plane carrying a symptomatic patient landed at Schiphol airport after delays in Grand Canaria.
- The outbreak originated on cruise ship Hondius, which carries 150 people and is en route to Tenerife; 30 guests disembarked at Saint Helena on April 24, including one passenger who died aboard on April 11.
- Dutch health authorities are contacting passengers from flight KL592, which departed Johannesburg for the Netherlands on April 25, after a passenger was removed for showing symptoms of the rare Andes hantavirus strain.
- Singapore's Communicable Diseases Agency reported that two residents from the cruise ship were isolated at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, with test results currently pending.
- The ship is expected to dock in the Canary Islands on Saturday, after which asymptomatic passengers may disembark; officials confirmed no vaccine exists for the virus, requiring symptomatic treatment only.
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A KLM flight attendant is in hospital, apparently with hantavirus infection. In Johannesburg, she came into contact with patient zero, a Dutch woman who, together with her husband, became infected and spread the virus on the MV Hondius cruise ship. The flight attendant is hospitalized in Amsterdam with mild symptoms, writes the website of the daily De Telegraaf.
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