Deadly Virus Follows Santa Clara Traveler Home From Cruise Ship Outbreak: Health Officials
Health officials are tracing contacts after the Andes strain spread on the ship, a rare person-to-person outbreak that has killed 3 and left 1 critically ill.
- An outbreak of the rare Andes hantavirus on the cruise ship MV Hondius has infected eight people, killing three and leaving a fourth in critical condition.
- Unlike typical hantaviruses, the Andes virus can transmit between humans, a trait that likely enabled spread aboard the ship after initial rodent exposure in Argentina.
- Dr. Lucille Blumberg, former deputy director of South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases, is monitoring all passengers for at least 45 days. She called it an "unusual person-to-person event."
- Authorities evacuated ill passengers to South Africa and Ascension Island for medical care while the World Health Organization coordinates global genome sequencing to identify the virus's origin.
- With only about 300 cases of human-to-human Andes virus transmission documented in history, Vanderbilt University preventive medicine professor Dr. William Schaffner called the maritime outbreak "extraordinarily unusual.
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Andes virus linked to cruise ship deaths raises concern over human-to-human spread – Democratic Accent
As health officials track the hantavirus outbreak that began on the MV Hondius cruise ship, attention is turning to the Andes virus, a rare strain from South America that is causing concern. The virus stemming from the cruise ship, which has caused around eight cases and three deaths as of May 11, was identified by the World Health Organization as the Andes strain. Unlike most forms of hantavirus, which spread from rodents to humans, Andes is th…
According to a memorandum from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, infections on the cruise ship may have spread between people even through shorter-term contact.
After several mysterious deaths on board a cruise ship, a South African team of virologists and epidemiologists identified, in record time, the strain of the Andes. The story of a scientific investigation that...
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