Spain tests suspected hantavirus case in Alicante
- On Friday, Spanish health officials began testing a 32-year-old woman in Alicante for hantavirus after she shared a flight with a Dutch passenger who died from the infection.
- This suspected case follows an outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship, where three people have died since the vessel departed Argentina in April.
- Spanish Secretary of State for Health Javier Padilla stated the woman has "mild respiratory symptoms" and sat two rows behind the infected passenger during the flight.
- The MV Hondius will anchor off Tenerife on Sunday, where authorities will begin repatriating nearly 150 passengers from 23 countries.
- Health officials expect test results within 24 to 48 hours, while authorities are currently tracing all individuals the woman has contacted in recent days.
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New suspected hantavirus cases found in Spain, Tristan da Cunha | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
AMSTERDAM >> Two new suspected cases of hantavirus were reported today, one in Spain and the other on the remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, as experts race to contain an outbreak that began on a luxury cruise ship.
Alicante prepares for prevention of a possible outbreak of hantavirus. The hospitalization of the 32-year-old woman "with compatible symptoms" with hantavirus has forced to prepare by protocol to hospitals in San Juan and Alicante. "There are several rooms prepared in San Juan and Alicante", official sources have informed OKDIARIO. According to them, more than by alarm, they prepare by protocol for possible cases. They ensure that the hospital i…
On Friday, two suspicious cases were reported in Spain that were in contact with the woman who died in Johannesburg, South Africa, after leaving the Hondius MV cruise. The Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla, has detailed that there is one admitted in Alicante "with compatible symptoms", while a second person, a South African citizen, has also been detected who was also in contact with the deceased and who, after spending a week in Bar…
The shadow of the hantavirus has officially reached the Iberian Peninsula. The Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla, confirmed this Friday the existence of a suspicious case in Alicante: a 32-year-old woman who is already under strict hospital isolation after presenting symptoms compatible with the disease . This case ignites the alarms due to her direct connection to the outbreak declared on the cruise ship MV Hondius, which has alread…
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Insider PaperSpain finds suspected hantavirus case from contact with victim
MADRID — Spanish authorities said Friday a woman had been tested for suspected hantavirus after travelling on the same flight as a Dutch woman who stayed on the MV Hondius cruise ship and later died from the virus.The woman has "symptoms mainly related to coughing while she was in her family home" in the eastern city of Alicante, Spanish secretary of state for health Javier Padilla told journalists.She was placed in "an isolation room" in hospit…
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