Hantavirus

Global health officials are tracking people connected to a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship. One infected passenger had briefly boarded a flight from South Africa to the Netherlands before she died.

A Dutch flight attendant is being tested for the hantavirus at a hospital in the Netherlands after she came into contact with someone infected with the virus, the Dutch health ministry said on Thursday, as global health officials scrambled to track people connected to a deadly outbreak of the virus o

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India activates precautionary surveillance measures as the hantavirus outbreak grows

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• The Union Health Ministry activated surveillance after hantavirus cases on MV Hondius cruise ship

• Five cases and three deaths confirmed; virus is Andes strain with limited human transmission

• Two asymptomatic Indian nationals onboard are under observation per international protocols

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Global health authorities are working to contain an outbreak of hantavirus aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship.

The total number of confirmed cases associated with the outbreak is increasing, health officials said. To date, three people who were aboard the ship are known to have died of the virus.

More than 100 passengers remain on the ship, and the World Health Organization is monitoring their health. Officials said that the "overall public health risk remains low" but that there may be some per

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Hantaviruses are primarily spread to humans through contact with infected rodents or their saliva, urine and faeces.

Amid concerns over reports that two Indian nationals aboard a cruise ship were infected with hantavirus, a senior Indian Council of Medical Research official said the cases appear to be isolated and there is "no immediate public health threat" to India.

Dr Naveen Kumar, Director of the ICMR's National Institute of Virology (NIV), said there is currently no evidence of community s

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Officials in Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province are challenging the idea that the ongoing deadly hantavirus outbreak may have emerged there, pushing instead for investigations into the other Argentine provinces that passengers visited before boarding the ill-fated Atlantic cruise ship.

Current and former officials in the archipelago at the southernmost point of South America insist that the virus did not originate from the trash heap in Ushuaia that national he

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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has assured Nigerians that there was no confirmed case of Hantavirus in the country despite reports of an ongoing cluster linked to cruise ship travel involving multiple countries.

In a public health advisory on Friday, the Director-General Jide Idris, said the agency was aware of recent reports of an ongoing Hantavirus cluster linked to a cruise ship travel involving multiple countries.

He explained that the development involved a li

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Ontario's chief medical officer of health says two Ontario residents who were on a cruise ship with passengers infected with hantavirus are in good spirits and showing no symptoms, while isolating in their rural community.

Dr. Kieran Moore says the couple in the Grey Bruce Public Health Unit's area are being monitored

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Hantavirus outbreak on Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius near Cape Verde kills three, infects several, 149 people from 23 countries stranded, including two Indian crew members

Two Indian crew members are among the 149 people stranded aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius, where a hantavirus outbreak has killed three passengers and infected several others.

The ship, operated by Oceanwide Expeditions, has been anchored near Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean after multiple passengers developed symptom

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