WHO tracing 98 passengers on flight with hantavirus victim
The World Health Organization is urgently working to trace the passengers who were aboard a flight with the Dutch woman who died of hantavirus infection
ATT Desk Report
Rare hantavirus cases linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius have been increasing since the suspected outbreak of the deadly illness, reports the Mirror US.
The World Health Organization said in a Wednesday update that there are eight cases, three of which have been confirmed as hantavirus by laboratory testing, and five were suspected. The WHO said that three passengers have died after contracting the Andes strain of the rare hantavirus. Those who died from the virus were identified as a Dutch couple and a German national.
The agency is now urgently working to trace up to 98 passengers who spent four hours on the plane with the Dutch woman who died from hantavirus infection one day after the flight from the South Atlantic Island of Saint Helena to Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 25.
