Hantavirus Outbreak on Antarctic Cruise Ship Kills Three, Spreads Across Multiple Countries
Sourced from 8 publications
- •Three former MV Hondius passengers have died from hantavirus, according to The Guardian.
- •Canada confirmed a 'presumptive positive' case in a passenger isolating on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
- •France's Pasteur Institute sequenced the virus and found it matches known South American Andes virus strains with no new transmissibility traits.
- •French health officials report one person in intensive care and are monitoring 22 additional contact cases.
- •Eighteen passengers are undergoing assessment at the National Quarantine Unit in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Canada confirms first hantavirus case in isolation in British Columbia
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France monitoring hantavirus contact cases
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