Suspected Hantavirus

Soldaten hebben zuurstofvoorraden en medische hulp gedropt op het meest afgelegen overzeese territorium van Groot-Brittannië • Wat is het hantavirus? Parachutisten landden op een "golfbaan bedekt met rotsen" om medisch personeel en zuurstof te leveren aan het meest afgelegen overzeese territorium van Groot-Brittannië, dat kampt met een vermoedelijk geval van hantavirus, aldus een legercommandant. De UK Health Security Agency bevestigde vrijdag dat een Britse staatsburger met een vermoedelijk geval van hantavirus is uitgestapt van het cruiseschip MV Hondius op het eiland Tristan da Cunha in de Zuid-Atlantische Oceaan, waar deze persoon woont. Lees verder...

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?

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...