90-Second Read: French woman evacuated from cruise ship tests positive for Hantavirus

A French woman and two Americans have tested positive or showed symptoms of Hantavirus. THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP), A French woman and two Americans tested positive or showed symptoms of Hantavirus Monday as nations around the world scrambled to repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by an outbreak and quarantine or isolate them. The French woman tested positive for Hantavirus and her health worsened in the hospital overnight, French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said Monday. Authorities announced the new cases as nations around the world repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by an outbreak and quarantine or isolate them. French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said Monday tha...

The woman was among five French passengers repatriated Sunday to Paris from the MV Hondius. The World Health Organization recommended close monitoring of the former passengers, and many countries quarantined them. But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. One passenger will be transported to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit upon arrival, while other passengers will go to the National Quarantine Unit for assessment and monitoring. The medical school also has a special unit for treating people with highly infectious diseases that was used early in the pandemic for COVID-19 patients and previously for Ebola patients.

The Americans would first be taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which has a federally funded quarantine facility, to assess whether they have been in close contact with any symptomatic people and their risk levels for spreading the virus. The passenger who is going to the Biocontainment Unit tested positive for the virus but does not have symptoms," said Kayla Thomas, a spokesperson for the Nebraska Medicine hospital that will help care for the passengers. Earlier, officials from the Spanish Health Ministry, the World Health Organization and the cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions had said none of the more than 140 people who were then on the Hondius had shown symptoms of the virus. Hantavirus usually spreads from rodent droppings and is not easily transmitted between people. Passengers from.

Three people have died since the outbreak began, and five people who left the ship earlier were infected. WHO is recommending that passengers' home countries "have active monitoring and follow-up, which means daily health checks, either at home or in a specialized facility," said Maria van Kerkhove, the organization's top epidemiologist. She developed symptoms on the flight to Paris, Rist told public broadcaster France-Inter. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure. But also concern for public health, and we try to do that in the best way.