Q & A | N.W.T.’s chief public health officer on hantavirus
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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said there was no evidence that the virus had mutated following the hantavirus outbreak on the Hondius cruise ship. The Andean virus behaves in the same way as in areas where the hantavirus strain is already prevalent, the ECDC said in Stockholm on Wednesday.
Q & A | N.W.T.’s chief public health officer on hantavirus
News of the hantavirus outbreak related to the cruise ship MV Hondius may have caused some to have flashbacks to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Dr. Kami Kandola, the chief public health officer for the Northwest Territories, stressed there is no risk to N.W.T. residents at this time.
Doctors at a Paris hospital said a woman repatriated from a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak is in critical condition. Her respiratory function has deteriorated and she needs an artificial lung. The ECDC gave an update on hantavirus patients and infection control measures at a press conference on Wednesday. “She was still in intensive care this morning,” said Gianfranco Spiteri, an infectious diseases specialist at the ECDC, confirming the…
Finland Designates Andes Hantavirus Public Health Risk
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WHO and ECDC recommend long quarantines to combat hantavirus. Those exposed in Finland have also been quarantined. Liina Voutilainen, a special expert at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, is interested in whether mutations have occurred in the Andes virus in the case of MV Hondius.
Representatives of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) confirmed at a press conference that the Andean hantavirus that spread on board the Hondius cruise ship is not a new type or strain. It is not known to “behave” differently than usual. Existing diagnostic tools are sufficient to detect the virus and all EU nationals who travelled on the Hondius have been identified.
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