French Hantavirus Patient Remains Critical on Artificial Lung
The outbreak has reached 11 reported cases, and the World Health Organization says the risk of a wider spread remains low.
- The hantavirus outbreak from a cruise ship has reached 11 reported cases, including 9 confirmed, with 3 deaths of a Dutch couple and 1 more case in Spain.
- A French passenger is in critical condition on artificial lung support as the final stage of care for severe lung and heart problems caused by hantavirus.
- While there is no cure or vaccine, early detection and treatment improves survival rates, and Argentina will investigate the origin potentially linked to rodent exposure.
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Critically ill French hantavirus patient is on an artificial lung as outbreak grows to 11
The French passenger hospitalized in Paris has a severe form of the disease that has caused life-threatening lung and heart problems, said Dr. Xavier Lescure, an infectious disease specialist at Bichat Hospital.
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Kiro7Hantavirus outbreak: Patient on an artificial lung, 11 reported cases from cruise ship outbreak
One of the passengers on board the cruise ship struck by an outbreak of hantavirus has been placed on an artificial lung and is critically ill.
Hantavirus outbreak grows to 11 as French woman becomes critically ill
The hantavirus outbreak linked the MV Hondius cruise ship has now grown to 11 reported cases, with nine confirmed, so far. All the passengers and most of the crew are now off the ship and it is headed back to the Netherlands for cleaning and disinfection. The ship, now carrying only 25 crew members, a doctor and a nurse, is expected to arrive in the Netherlands by Sunday. REUTERS/Borja Suarez Spanish passenger quarantined in Madrid, French trave…
A French woman infected in the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is seriously ill and receiving treatment with a ventilator, a doctor at the Paris hospital treating her said Tuesday. The outbreak has reached…
After the Hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship "Hondius" a French passenger is in acute danger of life. The woman is in a special hospital in Paris and, according to doctors, had to be connected to an artificial lung. Her heart and lungs are said to be severely attacked. The outbreak on the cruise ship had become officially known on the ship at the beginning of May. In the meantime, three people died in connection with the infection, among the…
Among the evacuated French of the cruise ship "Hondius" there is at least one infected person. The symptoms of the woman appear on Sunday. Her condition deteriorates steadily.
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