One US citizen tests mildly positive for hantavirus, another has mild symptoms
Health officials said the evacuees will undergo specialized monitoring after three passengers died and at least six cases were confirmed.
- One of the 17 Americans repatriated from a hantavirus-struck cruise ship tested mildly positive for the Andes strain, and another has mild symptoms, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- Both symptomatic passengers are traveling in biocontainment units aboard the plane transporting all U.S. citizens to the United States.
- The second passenger with mild symptoms has not yet been confirmed as infected with hantavirus.
- All 17 citizens will be further screened upon arrival at medical facilities in Nebraska, including specialized treatment centers for emerging pathogens.
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Eighteen passengers from the MV Hondius cruise, including one who tested Hantavirus positive, are under surveillance in U.S. medical centers after their repatriation, today announced health authorities. Sixteen of them, one with dual U.S. and British nationality, were transferred to a specialized center in Omaha, Nebraska. In this group is the positive patient, who was admitted to a biological containment unit and who currently has no symptoms, …
One American Tested "Mildly Positive" For Hantavirus
One American has officially tested “mildly positive” for Hantavirus. The United States Department of Health and Human Services claimed that it was one of the 17 Americans being repatriated from a hantavirus-struck cruise ship had tested mildly positive. Seven cases of the Andes hantavirus have now been confirmed among passengers on board the cruise ship, MV Hondius, the World Health Organization said. Symptoms of Hantavirus can include fever, ex…
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18 Evacuated Americans Quarantined After Hantavirus Outbreak on Luxury Cruise Ship
U.S. health officials have confirmed that 18 passengers linked to a hantavirus outbreak aboard the luxury expedition cruise ship MV Hondius have been flown back ... The post 18 Evacuated Americans Quarantined After Hantavirus Outbreak on Luxury Cruise Ship first appeared on [your]NEWS.
2 more passengers evacuated from cruise ship test positive for hantavirus | Chattanooga Times Free Press
Passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak were being flown home Monday to more than 20 countries and quarantined, including a French woman and an American who tested positive.
The five French people present on the MV Hondius, where a hantavirus outbreak has declared themselves, were all hospitalized at the Bichat Hospital in Paris. They are placed in quarantine in the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (SMIT). - Hantavirus: what is the service of infectious and tropical diseases, in Paris, where are the passengers of the MV Hondius? (Health and well-being).
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