Italy Tests 2 for Hantavirus as British Tourist Enters Quarantine
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Updated · Reuters · May 12
Italy Tests 2 for Hantavirus as British Tourist Enters Quarantine
12 articles · Updated · Reuters · May 12
Italy sent samples from two possible hantavirus cases to Rome's Spallanzani hospital: an Argentine tourist hospitalized in Sicily with pneumonia and a 25-year-old man in Calabria under voluntary isolation.
The tourist had arrived from Argentina on April 30 after leaving an endemic area, while the Calabrian man briefly contacted a Dutch woman who later died after falling ill during her trip to the Netherlands.
A British tourist was also located in Milan and quarantined after UK authorities said he had been on the same flight as the Dutch woman; his travel companion was hospitalized as a precaution.
The cases are tied to a wider cluster linked to the MV Hondius expedition ship from Argentina, with the WHO now counting 9 confirmed infections and warning more could emerge during the long incubation period.
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