Updated
Updated · The Associated Press · May 7
40 passengers disembark hantavirus-hit cruise ship
Updated
Updated · The Associated Press · May 7

40 passengers disembark hantavirus-hit cruise ship

15 articles · Updated · The Associated Press · May 7
  • Dutch officials said they left at remote St Helena after the first death; among them was the wife of a Dutch victim, who later died in Johannesburg.
  • Authorities in South Africa and Europe are tracing contacts after a man who also disembarked at St Helena tested positive in Switzerland.
  • Three passengers have died and several others are ill; a British man was evacuated from Ascension Island and three more people, including the ship's doctor, were flown to Europe.
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