'Everything in Place' for Quarantine of Irish Passengers
WHO says six cases are confirmed and three passengers have died, while the global risk remains low and evacuation plans are underway.
- On May 10, the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius is scheduled to arrive at the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife, where authorities are preparing to evacuate passengers following a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people and infected six confirmed cases.
- Andes virus, the only hantavirus strain capable of human-to-human transmission, emerged after MV Hondius departed Ushuaia, Argentina, on April 1 for a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Verde.
- Arrangements for 17 American passengers involve a State Department repatriation flight to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, where they will be monitored at a federal quarantine facility.
- World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrives in Tenerife today to coordinate the evacuation and ensure "coordination between administrations, health control, and the application of the planned surveillance and response protocols," Spanish ministry sources said.
- WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier emphasized the risk to the general population remains "absolutely low," noting the virus is not easily contagious and does not typically spread between people sharing cabins.
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There are no longer any suspected cases of infection on the ship. Three passengers, a Dutch couple and a German citizen, have died.
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed a new case of Hantavirus contagion on the MV Hondius cruiser. With this, there are already six people in total and two others are classified as suspected of contagion.The cruiser keeps close to 150 people confined since the beginning of April by the detection of this virus.Three have died since then inside and outside the boat and four patients are hospitalized.After several days of uncertainty, pass…
Confirmed hantavirus cases on MV Hondius rise to six, WHO says
As of May 8, a total of eight cases, including three deaths, have been reported on the cruise ship MV Hondius, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday. Six cases have been laboratory-confirmed as hantavirus infections, with all identified as Andes virus (ANDV), according to the WHO.
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While the Hantavirus outbreak MV Hondius is expected to arrive in the Canary Islands on Sunday morning, WHO reports 6 confirmed cases of Hantavirus.
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