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Health authorities across several countries are racing to trace and contain an outbreak of the hantavirus after the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that five confirmed infections had been identified among people connected to the cruise ship MV Hondius.
Three people – a Dutch couple and a German national – have died since the vessel departed Argentina last month. The first suspected case was a 70-year-old Dutchman, who suddenly fell ill on the ship with a fever, headache, abdominal pain and diarrhea, South Africa’s Health Department told CNN. He died on board on April 11. Meanwhile, a total of 146 people from 23 different countries – including 17 Americans – are still aboard the vessel under “strict precautionary measures,”
operator Oceanwide Expeditions said Thursday.While at least 30 passengers disembarked at the remote South Atlantic island of Saint Helena in late April and several critical cases were air-evacuated to Europe this week, those remaining passengers are scheduled to arrive in Spain’s Canary Islands this weekend before they are flown back to their respective home countries.
Spanish authorities said in their latest update that the ship will arrive in Tenerife around noon local time (7:00 a.m. ET) on Sunday.Dr Kornfeld, who has spent the past five weeks on the boat, said most passengers have had little to no contact with those displaying symptoms of infection. “People on the boat have been in quarantine and isolation for three, four weeks, so I’m feeling pretty good most people will get off the boat relatively rapidly,” he said.
The situation has captured international attention as some passengers had disembarked and dispersed across multiple countries before the outbreak was fully understood, prompting some to draw comparisons to the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.Oceanwide said Thursday that they were working to “establish details of all passengers and crew who embarked and disembarked on various stops of m/v Hondius since March 20,” amid concern for the global spread of the virus.
It’s not yet clear how the outbreak occurred. But WHO is working on the assumption that the Dutch couple who died were infected off the ship, possibly while sightseeing in Argentina before joining the cruise.
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