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What you need to know about hantavirus as three people have died after a suspected outbreak
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Three people have succumbed to the hantavirus outbreak on an Atlantic Ocean cruise ship.
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What you need to know about hantavirus as three people have died after a suspected outbreak
"The risk to the wider public remains low," said Hans Kluge, WHO Europe's regional director, in his own X post. "There is no need for panic or travel restrictions."

GENEVA, â May 4 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Monday there â was no need for panic and the risk to the âpublic was low after three people died and three fell ill following a suspected outbreak of the rodent-borne hantavirus on a cruise ship in the Atlantic.

A suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard the expedition vessel MV Hondius has resulted in three deaths and three additional illnesses, raising serious global health concerns. Authorities confirmed that the ship, operated by Oceanwide Expeditions, was sailing near Cape Verde when the medical emergency unfolded among passengers during the voyage. The cruise began in Argentina around three [...]

A British tourist is fighting for his life in a Johannesburg hospital after a suspected Hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship, with three passengers dead and two crew members also requiring urgent medical care

Six suspected cases of hantavirus have been reported on the MV Hondius cruise ship, with three people dead and a Brit man fighting for his life in intensive care

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. â A rodent-borne illness is suspected of causing an outbreak aboard a cruise ship that has killed three people and sickened others. Studies indicate hantaviruses have been around for centuries, with outbreaks documented in Asia and Europe. In the Eastern Hemisphere, it has been linked with hemorrhagic fever and kidney failure. It wasnât until the early 1990s that a previously unknown group of hantaviruses emerged in the southwestern United States as the cause of an acute respiratory disease now known hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. The disease gained attention last year after late actor Gene Hackmanâs wife, Betsy Arakawa, died from a hantavirus infection in New Mexico. The World Health Organization said in a statement Sunday that detailed investigations of the cruise ship outbreak are ongoing, including further laboratory testing and epidemiological investigations. Sequencing of the virus also is ongoing. Virus is spread by rodents and more rarely, people Hantavirus is mainly spread by contact with rodents or their urine, saliva or droppings, particularly when the m
The ship is currently off the coast of Cape Verde with two sick on board, but the cruise operator says "no authorization" has been given to allow them to...

Hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise: Three dead, ship quarantined off Cape Verde