Updated · World Health Organization (WHO) · May 22
WHO Schedules 1-Hour Hantavirus Webinar as Maritime Cases Spur Cross-Border Response
Updated
Updated · World Health Organization (WHO) · May 22
WHO Schedules 1-Hour Hantavirus Webinar as Maritime Cases Spur Cross-Border Response
2 articles · Updated · World Health Organization (WHO) · May 22
Friday’s 13:00–14:00 CEST EPI-WIN webinar will update clinicians and health officials on hantavirus natural history, case management, supportive care, potential therapeutics, and infection-control guidance.
Recent cases tied to an international maritime setting prompted the session, exposing how outbreak detection, clinical care, contact follow-up, and repatriation can require coordination across multiple countries and sectors.
WHO said it has been working with Member States and technical experts to pool evidence, operational experience, and emerging analysis on the outbreak’s epidemiology and clinical implications.
Speakers from WHO, PAHO, ECDC, Johns Hopkins and hospitals in Argentina, Switzerland and South Africa will discuss hospital IPC, stable-patient treatment, critical-care cases, and severe ANDV disease mechanisms.
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