How France Works to Beat the Hantavirus Chain of Transmission
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The 22 cases identified will eventually be confined to the hospital, and not to their homes as initially announced. These are the eight passengers of the flight of April 25 between St. Helena and Johannesburg and the fourteen on board the Johannesburg-Amsterdam flight on the same day. A transfer took place this Tuesday morning from Concarneau (Finistère) to the CHU of Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) to avoid any risk of contamination. (Health and well-…
The mayor of Concarneau, Quentin Le Gaillard, has been very much in demand since the announcement of the presence of an identified case of contact with the hantavirus in his commune.
How France works to beat the hantavirus chain of transmission
Across France there's a race against time to break the chain of Hantavirus transmission. Twenty-two close contacts with the virus have been identified. They will all be placed in quarantine. One of these identified close contacts is set to be hospitalised in Rennes, in the west of France. To combat the virus, the government has announced that it will hold two crisis meetings a day.
Hantavirus causes anxiety after the death of a Dutch cruiser. A Breton, a contact case identified with Concarneau, has been transferred to the Rennes CHU for examinations under high surveillance.
THE POINT ON THE SITUATION - Of the 22 French people identified as contact cases d-hantavirus, a man was transferred from Concarneau to CHU in Rennes.
A case of contact with Hantavirus has been reported in Finistère. The man must be transferred to the CHU of Rennes, Tuesday, May 12, 2026.
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