Canadian health authorities have identified a presumptive hantavirus case in British Columbia linked to the outbreak aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius, officials said on Friday, marking the country’s first known infection connected to the incident.

The six passengers on-board the hantavirus-infected ship have landed in Western Australia where they will be plunged into strict quarantine.

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The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak has now reached 11 reported cases, 9 of which have been confirmed. The risk to the wider public from the outbreak is low, the World Health Organization says. While there is no cure or vaccine for hantavirus,

The woman was among five French passengers allowed to leave the vessel on Sunday. However, after returning to France, her condition deteriorated rapidly.

At least five Americans on both US coasts are being monitored for hantavirus symptoms after possibly coming into contact with passengers of the MV Hondius cruise ship on international flights.

The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius set off alarms for a world still traumatized by Covid. For those on board, the danger was much closer.

A 2020 NEJM study of the 2018 to 2019 Epuyén outbreak showed that Andes virus spread from one zoonotic introduction into four generations of human infection, causing 34 cases and 11 deaths. The findings are newly relevant after WHO reported an ANDV cluster linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship,