WHO manages cruise ship hantavirus disembarkation amid outbreak
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Updated · POLITICO · May 7
WHO manages cruise ship hantavirus disembarkation amid outbreak
10 articles · Updated · POLITICO · May 7
Tedros said 140 people remain aboard en route to the Canary Islands after passengers from 12 countries left on St Helena; at least eight have returned to the US.
Three passengers have died, five symptomatic cases are hospitalised in the Netherlands, South Africa and Switzerland, and WHO, CDC and other experts are preparing return and quarantine guidance.
WHO says wider spread risk is low, with no symptoms among those still aboard, but the six-week incubation period complicates repatriation and prompted Tedros to urge the US and Argentina to rejoin.
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