How operation to disembark passengers on virus-hit cruise will work

The BBC's Guy Hedgecoe reports from Tenerife, where some locals fear the ship's arrival could bring health risks.

Authorities scramble to limit hantavirus outbreak, trace contacts around globe

U.S. officials in at least five states — Arizona, California, Georgia, Texas and Virginia — are monitoring symptoms of seven returning passengers.

By Victoria Craw, Lena H. Sun

Two Britons evacuated from hantavirus-hit ship ‘improving’ in hospital

Man, 69, is in intensive care in Johannesburg, while expedition guide Martin Anstee, 56, receiving care in Netherlands What is hantavirus? Two Britons who were medically evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship are improving, global health officials have said. A British passenger, understood to be a 69-year-old man, was taken to South Africa on 27 April and is receiving care at a private health facility in Sandton, Johannesburg. Continue reading...

By Caroline Davies and Geneva Abdul

Tenerife resort town awaits hantavirus-hit cruise ship

Locals react to cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak which is set to dock in southern Tenerife.

3 Canadians isolating in Ontario, Quebec after hantavirus ship outbreak

Three people with connections to a deadly hantavirus-stricken cruise are isolating at home in Ontario and Quebec, the federal government said Thursday as consular officials headed to the Canary Islands to meet four Canadians who remain on board.

Andes hantavirus: Deadly 2018 outbreak shows it is not only transmitted through close contact

The analysis of 34 infections after a party in Argentina confirms community transmission and the role of superspreaders — a pattern that may echo the situation aboard the ‘MV Hondius’

By Enrique Alpañés

Virginia monitoring traveler linked to Hantavirus-hit cruise ship, says resident is low-risk

Three Canadians linked to hantavirus-hit cruise are now isolating in Ontario, Quebec

Four more Canadians remain on the ship and will depart with other passengers in the Canary Islands

By Chris Knight

Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak: Andes strain not worrying experts amid fears of COVID-like lockdown

A hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship has resulted in three deaths and several illnesses.

‘Morale on ship is high’: Inside ‘hantavirus’ cruise ship where 3 died, others fell sick

What Is Andes Strain, The Only Hantavirus Type Capable Of Human-To-Human Transmission?

Andes virus, found in South America, is the only currently known hantavirus for which limited human-to-human transmission among contacts has been documented.

Dutch couple who died of virus visited three countries

The two Dutch cruise ship passengers who died of hantavirus had travelled through Chile, Uruguay and Argentina before boarding the MV Hondius, Argentina's health ministry said yesterday.

Hantavirus strain confirmed

The outbreak has entered a more serious phase after authorities confirmed that two cases detected in SA involve the Andes variant

By Eyaaz

Everything to Know About Deadly Hantavirus Cruise Ship Outbreak

Three people are dead amid an outbreak of the rare hantavirus aboard a cruise ship. Global health officials are investigating how the rodent-borne virus—which killed the late Gene Hackman's wife...

WHO says now five confirmed cruise ship hantavirus cases

The World Health Organization said Thursday there were now five confirmed hantavirus cases from the Atlantic cruise ship outbreak, with three more suspected -- and warned further cases were possible. The post WHO says now five confirmed cruise ship hantavirus cases appeared first on Vanguard News.

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