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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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).
It follows the last hour of the outbreak of hantavirus detected on the cruise ship MV Hondius, with the news about the status of the passengers evacuated, the confirmed cases in different countries and the situation of the Spaniards transferred to the Central Hospital of the Defense Gómez Ulla.The health authorities have clarified that during the crossing no massive PCR tests were carried out on board the ship, nor during navigation, due to the …
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