Health officials in a growing list of countries scrambled on Thursday to track people connected to a deadly outbreak of the hantavirus on a cruise ship. The World Health Organization also predicted a “limited” spread of the virus if public health measures were implemented. “This is not Covid, this is not influenza,” Dr. Maria Van…
The MV Hondius is sailing towards Spain’s Canary Islands where all passengers will be evacuated, after being anchored for three days near Cape Verde. Three people have died either on board or after travelling on the ship after a hantavirus outbreak. The cruise set off from Argentina a month ago. The cruise ship will dock…
Infected people aboard the MV Hondius, a Dutch cruise ship with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, have started to be evacuated from the ship and brought to hospitals in Europe. Two patients have landed in the Netherlands, where they are receiving medical treatment, according to a statement on Wednesday from Oceanwide Expeditions, the Dutch company…
American officials said on Wednesday that residents in three states were being monitored for potential hantavirus infections after being aboard a Dutch cruise ship where there was a deadly outbreak of the virus. None of the people being monitored have shown signs of illness, the officials said. Since April 11, three passengers who were aboard…
Hantaviruses have most likely been around as long as rodents, but little was known about these pathogens before the 20th century. This rare family of viruses that rodents carry has been cited as the source of a deadly outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The virus is zoonotic, meaning it can be…
A cruise ship struck by a deadly outbreak of hantavirus is expected to sail to the Canary Islands, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, though the Spanish authorities noted that a team of disease experts would investigate the vessel before any decision on the ship’s destination was made. The W.H.O. also said on Tuesday…
Here’s what to know: Three people died but the risk to the wider public is low. While three passengers died and more might have caught the virus, Hans Kluge, the W.H.O. regional director for Europe, said on Monday that the risk to the wider public remained low. “There is no need for panic or travel…
Hantavirus, a rare disease often caused by contact with droppings from infected rodents, is suspected in the deaths of three people who were aboard a cruise ship sailing the Atlantic Ocean. Hantavirus is most commonly transmitted by breathing in particles of dried rodent droppings or urine. In rare cases, it may spread among people, according…
Three people who were aboard a cruise ship sailing the Atlantic Ocean have died of suspected infections of hantavirus, the World Health Organization said on Sunday, referring to a rare family of viruses carried by rodents. One case of the infection was confirmed in a laboratory, the organization said in a statement. There are five…
