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…
Africa’s top health agency has confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo after dozens of deaths were reported. Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has declared an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, with at least 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded in Ituri province. Most of the…
Thousands of former dental patients in Sydney are being urged to get tested for bloodborne viruses. Health authorities in Australia have warned former patients of retired dentist William Tam to undergo medical testing after serious infection control failures were discovered at his clinic in western Sydney. The New South Wales Health said patients who visited…
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…
