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Two Singaporean Residents Test Negative for Hantavirus After Deadly Cruise Outbreak
CDA said the men were isolated and will be quarantined for 30 days, with a 45-day monitoring period after exposure.
- On Friday, May 8, the Communicable Diseases Agency confirmed two Singapore residents aboard the Hondius tested negative for hantavirus, including the Andes virus, after laboratory testing of multiple samples.
- The 67-year-old Singaporean and 65-year-old permanent resident returned home on May 2 and May 6 after boarding the Hondius, which departed the Argentinian port of Ushuaia on April 1 before reporting a hantavirus outbreak.
- Isolated at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases , both men were on the same flight to Johannesburg on April 25 as a confirmed hantavirus case who later died in South Africa.
- Authorities quarantined the pair for 30 days from last exposure, with testing required before release and phone surveillance continuing for a 45-day monitoring period covering the maximum hantavirus incubation window.
- Health experts currently view the risk of a hantavirus outbreak in Asia as minimal, though public health authorities remain on guard following regional panic triggered by three deaths aboard the vessel.
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Two people from Singapore who had been on board the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius have tested negative, the country's health authorities say.
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