Hantavirus Alert as Officials Hunt 82 Passengers on 'Infected Flight'
Airlink is contacting passengers after health officials traced 62 possible exposures and placed 42 people under observation, authorities said.
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Airlink flight carrying 82 passengers linked to Hantavirus case in SA
Airlink has announced that it is working with South African health authorities after a passenger linked to a rare Hantavirus case died shortly after arriving in Johannesburg on board one of its flights. The passenger had travelled on Airlink flight 4Z 132 from St Helena Island to Johannesburg on 25 April after leaving the cruise ship MV Hondius, which had been sailing from Argentina to the Canary Islands via Cape Verde. There were 82 passengers …
Where are the passengers of flight 4Z132? The World Health Organization (WHO) is searching for 82 passengers who may have contracted the dangerous hantavirus on board, and the disease is now spreading around the world. The plane with them was a 69-year-old woman from the MV Hondius cruise ship who had the virus and died shortly after landing.
There are currently three deaths.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is tracing more than 80 passengers from a flight from St. Helena to Johannesburg that carried a woman infected with hantavirus. She later died in hospital. According to health authorities, her condition deteriorated during the flight and she was hospitalized after arriving and succumbed to the infection.
The passengers on a flight last month carrying a woman with hantavirus have no symptoms so far. On April 25, the sick Dutch cruise passenger flew to South Africa, where she passed away a day later.
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