The World Health Organization says there is currently no evidence of a larger hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there is “no sign” of a wider hantavirus outbreak following the evacuation of passengers from the virus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship. Speaking in Madrid, Tedros…
Peter Obi, the former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has praised Nigerian nurses and midwives for their contributions to healthcare delivery across the country. In a one-minute video posted on X on Tuesday by Esther Umoh, his personal photographer, Obi described nurses as the backbone of the healthcare system. The former Anambra governor spoke…
Doctors and health experts have officially renamed PCOS to better reflect the full impact of the condition on women’s health. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), one of the most common hormonal disorders affecting women, has been renamed Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS). The name change was announced in a global consensus published in The Lancet, with…
Health authorities confirmed three more hantavirus cases as the final passengers disembarked from the virus-hit MV Hondius. The last passengers aboard the MV Hondius have left the cruise ship after a deadly hantavirus outbreak linked to the vessel. The ship departed Tenerife for the Netherlands on Monday after its remaining six passengers disembarked alongside several…
US health officials confirmed one American passenger has tested positive for hantavirus after evacuation from the MV Hondius cruise ship. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says one American passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship has tested PCR positive for hantavirus, while another passenger is currently showing mild symptoms linked to…
Health officials in France have isolated cruise ship passengers after one evacuee developed symptoms linked to the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius. A French passenger evacuated from the virus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship has shown symptoms of hantavirus during a repatriation flight from Tenerife to Paris, French authorities confirmed. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu…
UK military launches emergency mission to support a Briton linked to the MV Hondius virus outbreak. The British Army has parachuted medical personnel and emergency supplies onto the remote island of Tristan da Cunha to help a British man with suspected hantavirus linked to the MV Hondius outbreak. The man, who lives on the isolated…
Spanish nationals from the virus-hit MV Hondius have begun quarantine after evacuation in Tenerife. The first passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-affected MV Hondius have arrived in Madrid after leaving the cruise ship anchored near Tenerife. Fourteen Spanish nationals were flown from Tenerife on a chartered aircraft and transferred to a military hospital in Madrid, where…
Spanish authorities have started evacuating passengers from the virus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship anchored near Tenerife. Spain on Sunday began a large-scale operation to remove passengers and crew from the MV Hondius after a hantavirus outbreak linked to the vessel left three people dead. Health officials said all remaining passengers are currently asymptomatic as evacuation…
More than 100 passengers and crew members have fallen ill during a Caribbean Princess voyage, according to the CDC. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said a norovirus outbreak aboard the Caribbean Princess cruise ship has sickened 115 people so far. The agency confirmed that 102 passengers and 13 crew members reported…
