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The doctors said her symptoms were not “compatible with hantavirus,” Spanish health minister, Javier Padilla Bernáldez, said
Twenty Britons from a cruise ship hit by deadly hantavirus continue to isolate at a UK hospital as the captain praised the “patience and kindness” of those on board.All 20 British nationals from the MV Hondius,
Hantaviruses are groups of viruses – microscopic organisms that infect hosts – transmitted by mice and rats. They can cause serious, sometimes fatal, illnesses in people. Hantavirus disease is considered rare, with 890 cases reported in the United States between 1993 and 2023.
A team of British army medics and paratroopers airdropped onto the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha Saturday to render aid to a UK national who is believed to have contracted hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship. The unidentified Briton, who ...