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Map: Health Officials in at Least 10 States Monitoring Hantavirus Exposures Linked to Cruise
Health officials say the three residents are asymptomatic and under monitoring as contact tracing continues after a sick passenger later tested positive.
- Public Health- Seattle & King County announced Tuesday that three King County residents are being monitored after potential exposure to Andes hantavirus linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak.
- The Andes virus caused an outbreak aboard the Hondius that resulted in at least two deaths, making it the only known hantavirus capable of spreading between people under close-contact conditions.
- Two residents were seated near an ill cruise ship passenger on an airplane who was removed before takeoff and later tested positive; a third remains quarantined at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
- All three residents remain asymptomatic, and Dr. Sandra Valenciano, Health Officer and Acting Director for Public Health- Seattle & King County, stated that established contact tracing protocols have contained hantavirus spread in previous outbreaks.
- Unlike COVID-19, the Andes virus requires prolonged close contact for transmission, according to Alex Greninger, head of the Division of Infectious Disease Diagnostics at the University of Washington Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.
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