Passengers From Virus-Stricken Cruise Ship Fly to Home Countries for Monitoring | Chattanooga Times Free Press
WHO says 6 passengers with confirmed or suspected hantavirus should quarantine for 42 days after the outbreak killed 3 people on board.
- On Monday, the final passengers disembarked the MV Hondius in the Canary Islands, boarding flights to more than 20 countries to enter quarantine following the ship's deadly hantavirus outbreak.
- Health authorities identified this as the first hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, with the Andes virus likely spreading from rodent droppings aboard the vessel before rare person-to-person transmission occurred.
- The World Health Organization recommends 42 days of quarantine for returning passengers. A French woman remains stable in intensive care in Paris, while Americans are being evaluated at medical centers in Omaha and Atlanta.
- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed concerns about U.S. preparedness, while WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged calm, stating there is "nothing to fear" as the risk remains low.
- The MV Hondius departed the Canary Islands on Monday with 25 crew members remaining aboard. Captain Jan Dobrogowski praised passengers and crew for their "courage and perseverance," requesting privacy as global monitoring continues.
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France says hantavirus outbreak ‘under control’ as infection remains isolated
Health authorities in France have moved to reassure the public after a French woman who travelled aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius developed a severe case of hantavirus, with officials stressing there is no evidence the virus is circulating across the country.
Government jet sanitised after repatriating two patients on virus-hit cruise, as women must wait six weeks to get all-clear
Two Irish women who are back in Dublin after travelling as passengers on the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius will have to wait until June 21 before they get the all-clear.
The passengers and crew of the MV Hondius, where the Hantavirus outbreak was detected, have all left the cruise ship and joined their respective countries. Measures have since been taken, where cases have been confirmed, to break the transmissions. TF1's JT addresses the fears of a risk of spread of the virus around the world. - Hantavirus: have we taken a risk by dispersing the passengers of the cruise ship? (Health and well-being).
Expert warns we're days from cruise passengers passing on virus... with possible first case already reported
According to a report in the Daily Mail, experts warn that the first cases of hantavirus transmitted from passengers of the stricken MV Hondius to the general public could emerge within days, as health authorities monitor a possible contact case in France. The rat-borne virus, confirmed to spread person-to-person in this outbreak linked to the Andes strain, […]
The body remains on board until its arrival in Rotterdam. A French woman complains that her symptoms have not been taken seriously. News in the blog.
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