French Hantavirus Patient Remains Critical on Artificial Lung
Doctors say the patient needs artificial-lung support as the cruise-linked outbreak reaches 11 cases and investigators probe possible person-to-person spread.
- 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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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.
The woman is one of the five Frenchmen who were traveling with the cruise ship "Hondius", which was affected by a hantavirus outbreak.
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