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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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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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Proof of the excellence of the University Hospitals of Geneva, it is one of its laboratories that has just identified the strain of hantavirus that caused three deaths on the MV Hondius, a cruise ship passed by Argentina and South America.
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