Further medical tests found no evidence the US doctor was infected with hantavirus. Dr. Stephen Kornfeld, the American doctor who initially tested positive for hantavirus after falling ill aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, has now tested negative following additional examinations in Nebraska. Doctors at the University of Nebraska Medical Center said the original result…
French health officials say a cruise ship passenger infected with hantavirus is battling a severe form of the disease. A French passenger linked to the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship is in intensive care in France after developing a severe cardiopulmonary form of the virus. French Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said the…
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…
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 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…
Concerns are growing in Tenerife as the MV Hondius cruise ship approaches following a hantavirus outbreak onboard. Spanish authorities and the World Health Organization (WHO) have approved plans for passengers aboard the MV Hondius to disembark in Tenerife this weekend after several hantavirus cases were reported during the voyage. Three passengers were previously evacuated in…
The World Health Organization says the hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship poses a low public health risk. The World Health Organization has said the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius is not the beginning of another global pandemic, despite confirmed cases and deaths linked to the vessel. Speaking at a briefing…
