A brand new case of hantavirus has emerged on the MV Hondius, elevating considerations amongst well being authorities relating to human-to-human transmission.
One other passenger on the cruise liner MV Hondius has been identified with a hantavirus an infection and is being handled in a Swiss hospital. He was on the ship for the primary leg (Ushuaia to St Helena, April 1-24) of its present journey and have become unwell after he had already left the cruise, the spokesperson for Oceanwide Expedition, Kiki Hirschfeldt, stated on Tuesday afternoon.
The passenger’s spouse, who was additionally on the cruise, was asymptomatic and self-isolating, she added.
The most recent analysis has introduced the whole tally to 3 confirmed circumstances of hantavirus, with one other 5 suspected. Three individuals have died within the suspected outbreak, and a number of other others have fallen unwell.
Well being Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi instructed Parliament that the 2 passengers who have been evacuated to South Africa — a Dutch lady who collapsed at OR Tambo Worldwide Airport and later died, and a British man who’s receiving therapy in a Johannesburg hospital — had the Andes pressure of hantavirus, which will be transmitted from individual to individual. All the opposite hantaviruses infect people by way of rodent droppings, urine or saliva.
He stated this was not a brand new virus just like the SARS-CoV-2 virus that triggered the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and…
