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Spanish national evacuated from hantavirus cruise ship tests positive
The patient was detected during periodic testing and remains in a high-level isolation unit as officials say the case does not change public risk.
- Spain's Ministry of Health announced Monday that a Spanish national evacuated from cruise ship MV Hondius tested positive for hantavirus, bringing confirmed cases among Spanish passengers to two.
- Authorities identified the patient as a close contact through epidemiological monitoring activated after the initial outbreak detection on the cruise ship. The patient has been quarantined at Gómez Ulla Central Defense Hospital in Madrid since May 10.
- Following confirmation, the patient was transferred to the hospital's High-Level Isolation Unit , where they remain under specialized medical supervision and established biosafety measures.
- The Ministry of Health stated the case was detected within existing isolation and control systems, emphasizing it does not change public health risk levels or alter current epidemiological response measures.
- France previously confirmed the hantavirus strain is neither new nor more transmissible, while the CDC reported no Americans have tested positive for hantavirus linked to the cruise outbreak.
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It is the second Spaniard of the fourteen traveling on the cruise that contracts this disease.
In Spain, a second case of contagion with the hantavirus has been confirmed. A quarantine passenger of the cruise ship "Hondius" has been tested positively for the virus, as the Spanish Ministry of Health announced on Monday. The new case "does not change the degree of risk to the general population", the Ministry assured. According to the patient was transferred to a high-insulation station in the military hospital Gómez Ulla. Another Spanish p…
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