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Spain has insisted it took every necessary precaution to prevent the spread of hantavirus from a cruise ship at the centre of an international health alert, even as authorities in France and the United States confirmed positive cases among evacuated passengers. The Spanish health ministry said in a statement that “from the start, all…
A special repatriation flight carrying 20 British nationals evacuated from a hantavirus-struck cruise ship landed at Manchester Airport on Sunday, bringing home passengers caught in one of the most unusual public health emergencies to affect a civilian vessel in recent memory. Television footage showed the aircraft touching down at the northwest England airport after…
British paratroopers have dropped onto the world’s most remote inhabited island to treat a suspected case of hantavirus. This mission marks the first time the UK military has parachuted medical staff into a humanitarian crisis. The patient, a British resident of Tristan da Cunha, caught the virus while aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship. He…
The last evacuation flight for passengers and crew of a cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak will depart the Canary Islands on Monday, according to Spain’s Health Minister, Monica Garcia. The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, which has recorded three deaths, arrived at the small industrial port of Granadilla on Tenerife early Sunday in…
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s director-general, arrives in Tenerife today to manage a high-stakes evacuation of the MV Hondius. The cruise ship carries a rare and lethal strain of hantavirus that has already claimed three lives. Spanish health and interior ministers will join the command post to oversee the transfer of roughly 150…
The World Health Organization expects more cases of a rare, human-to-human hantavirus strain to emerge following three deaths on a cruise ship. The MV Hondius became a floating laboratory for the Andes virus after passengers fell ill while crossing the Atlantic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO chief, confirmed five cases and three deaths so far….
Passengers aboard the MV Hondius are now observing strict health protocols similar to those seen during the COVID 19 pandemic as international health authorities investigate a rare hantavirus outbreak linked to multiple deaths on the vessel. The outbreak has drawn global attention after three passengers died and several others fell ill during the ship’s Atlantic…
Three people have died following a suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship travelling between Argentina and Cape Verde, raising urgent questions among global health authorities about how the potentially deadly virus spread among passengers. The World Health Organisation confirmed one case of the virus as of the time of reporting, while stressing that…