Dozens of passengers left hantavirus-stricken cruise ship after 1st fatality
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Authorities in South Africa and Europe are tracing contacts of passengers who left the ship. Experts say the risk to the wider public is considered low because hantavirus isn’t easily transmitted between people.
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The outbreak of hantavirus, a rare pathogen, has been tied to seven people on the cruise ship so far, according to the WHO, with two confirmed cases and five suspected...
By Issy Ronald, Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Some human-to-human transmission may have occurred on board the cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak that has left three people dead and several others ill, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.
A cruise ship with nearly 150 people aboard was waiting for help off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean after three passengers died in a suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus.
A suspected hantavirus patient was hauled off the plagued MV Hondius cruise ship in a hazmat suit on a gurney Wednesday -- as nearly 150 people remained trapped aboard the luxury vessel currently marooned off West Africa.
Authorities in South Africa and Europe are tracing contacts of passengers who left the ship. Experts say the risk to the wider public is considered low because hantavirus isn’t easily transmitted between people.
About 40 passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak previously disembarked on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena after the first passenger died, Dutch...
The dozens of passengers, including the wife of a Dutch man who died, left the cruise ship during a stop at the British territory, the Dutch foreign ministry said on Thursday.
Oceanwide Expeditions has revealed that 30 passengers disembarked from its cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak on April 24. They left the ship on the remote island of St. Helena, nearly two weeks after the first passenger died.
