WHO says 3 suspected hantavirus patients evacuated from cruise ship to the Netherlands
WHO says the ship’s outbreak has killed 3 passengers and sickened at least 5 others, with 3 suspected patients evacuated for treatment.
- On Wednesday, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the evacuation of three suspected hantavirus patients from the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, now en route to the Netherlands for medical care.
- A deadly hantavirus outbreak on the vessel has claimed three lives and sickened at least five others, prompting an international alert since Saturday when authorities first learned of the deaths.
- South African health authorities identified the Andes strain, a rare variant capable of human-to-human transmission through close contact; Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi noted it is the only one among 38 known strains transmissible between people.
- Regional leader Fernando Clavijo of Spain's Canary Islands opposed the vessel's arrival, telling radio station COPE that "this decision is not based on any technical criteria" and warned the ship could endanger the local population.
- The WHO continues monitoring the nearly 150 people aboard the marooned ship off Cape Verde, coordinating medical follow-up and isolation protocols as the vessel awaits permission to proceed toward the Canary Islands.
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Hantavirus-hit cruise ship to head soon to Spain after three people evacuated
A luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak and marooned since Sunday off the coast of Cape Verde was set to leave for Spain on Wednesday after three people, two of them seriously ill, were evacuated. The MV Hondius, with nearly 150 people on board, is expected to dock in Spain’s Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, within three days, Spain’s health minister said, adding that those still on board were not presenting any symptoms of the …
A hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius kills three people – the video shows the dramatic situation.
Air ambulances for suspected hantavirus patients leave Cape Verde
PRAIA, Cape Verde — Two air ambulances sent to retrieve three people believed infected with hantavirus on a cruise ship off Cape Verde left the archipelago nation's airport on Wednesday, an AFP journalist witnessed.The three were evacuated from the boat earlier, according to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who said they were being taken to the Netherlands.The two airplanes left one after the other, the first and larger headed to the Nether…
Suspected hantavirus patients evacuated from cruise ship
The World Health Organization (WHO) said early Wednesday morning it evacuated three people suspected of carrying the rare hantavirus from aboard a cruise ship to Europe. Three other people on board the vessel have already died from suspected hantavirus infection, and one person remains in critical care in South Africa. The WHO has confirmed two…
The Latest: 3 passengers from virus-hit cruise ship evacuated to the Netherlands
PRAIA, Cape Verde (AP) — Three people from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak, including the ship’s doctor, were being flown to the Netherlands for medical care on Wednesday as the ship with some 150 passengers prepared to head to Spain’s Canary Islands. Three people have died, and the World Health Organization says eight cases have been recorded in all. Passengers on the Dutch ship, the MV Hondius, are isolating in thei…
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