Hantavirus Outbreak

• Ten minste zes Amerikaanse staten — Californië, Georgia, Virginia, Arizona, Texas en New Jersey — volgen negen inwoners die zijn afgestapt van het cruiseschip MV Hondius tijdens een dodelijke uitbraak van het hantavirus in het buitenland. • Gezondheidsfunctionarissen melden geen symptomen bij de gemonitorde Amerikanen, waaronder twee personen in elk van Texas, New Jersey en Georgia, en één persoon in Californië, Virginia en Arizona; in totaal verlieten vorige maand 30 mensen het schip voordat de uitbraak werd bevestigd. • Woordvoerders van de staten, zoals Brian Micek uit Californië en Nancy Nydam Shirek uit Georgia, benadrukken de coördinatie met het CDC en het lage risico voor het publiek, waarbij in Texas zelfmonitoring via dagelijkse temperatuurmetingen wordt toegepast.

Patiënt bevindt zich nog op het zuid-Atlantische eiland Tristan da Cunha, aldus gezondheidsbeambten, terwijl het schip koers zet naar Tenerife Uitleg: Wat is het hantavirus?

• A hantavirus outbreak struck a cruise ship, sickening multiple passengers and prompting health alerts. • HHS is addressing allegations of overmedication with SSRIs alongside the infectious disease response. • The incident highlights rare but severe risks of rodent-borne viruses in confined travel settings.

Argentina, where the MV Hondius cruise departed, consistently ranked by WHO as having highest incidence of hantavirus in regionOfficials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise ship, amid reports that a number of passengers have already returned to their home countries.Argentina, where the cruise to Antarctica departed, is consistently ranked by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having the highest incidence of the rare, rodent-borne disease in Latin America. Investigators there are working to contact trace the source of contamination. Continue reading...

MV Hondius remains off the coast of Cape Verde after a suspected respiratory virus outbreak killed three people and left three more seriously ill. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGood morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Stephanie Convery with the main action.Mortgage holders are set to be hundreds of dollars worse off per month than they were at the start of the year as the Reserve Bank prepares to unload a third consecutive interest rate hike on borrowers. More coming up. Continue reading...

Officials say they will not authorise docking ‘to protect public health’ after deaths of three passengers on vesselWhat is hantavirus, the infection thought to have killed three on cruise ship?Officials in Cape Verde have said they will not allow a cruise ship believed to be harbouring an outbreak of a rare respiratory virus to dock in its ports, after the deaths of three passengers onboard.The statement on Monday came hours after global health officials said they were scrambling to investigate the suspected outbreak of hantavirus, a disease primarily found in rodents, on the cruise ship in the Atlantic. Continue reading...

Further three people taken ill, including 69-year-old Briton reported to be in intensive care in South AfricaThree people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic.One case of hantavirus infection had been confirmed and there were five additional suspected cases, the World Health Organization told Agence France-Presse on Sunday. Continue reading...