Why Hantavirus Isn’t the Next Pandemic, According to Health Officials
Cruise ship hantavirus outbreak prompts evacuations and quarantine; officials state the Andes strain's human-to-human transmission potential but assess the pandemic risk as low.
- On Sunday, passengers disembarked the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Spain, as health officials evacuated more than 140 people remaining aboard.
- The World Health Organization was notified of respiratory illnesses on May 2nd, following the ship's April 1st departure from Argentina, with officials identifying the Andes virus strain capable of human-to-human transmission.
- Three people have died from the virus, with five infected passengers having previously left the ship; Dr. Sonja Bartolome of UT Southwestern Medical Center noted that symptoms may initially resemble the flu.
- Seventeen Americans are flying to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, for quarantine at the National Quarantine Center, while The CDC confirmed the risk to the general American public remains extremely low.
- Infectious disease epidemiologist Maria DeJoseph Van Kerkhove emphasized the outbreak is not COVID-19 or influenza, and Dr. Galiatsatos noted that Hantavirus is difficult to spread, making a pandemic unlikely.
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Hantavirus poses 'very little risk' to wider public, health expert says
Health experts say a hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship should not be compared to Covid-19, despite growing public concern and online misinformation. Professor of Medecine Paul Hunter of the University of East Anglia said the virus is well known, spreads only through close contact, and poses “very little risk” to the wider public, even as passengers continue to be monitored after disembarking in the Canary Islands.
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