Discussions are ongoing with international partners on options to repatriate a New Zealander aboard a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly strain of hantavirus. The WHO has recommended a 42-day quarantine for all passengers though global health experts have urged calm, reminding a public scarred from the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic that this virus was far less contagious and posed little risk to the general population. The virus, usually spread by rodents but also transmittable person-to-person in rare cases of close contact, was first detected by health officials in Johannesburg on May 2 treating a British man who fell ill and was taken into intensive care, 21 days after another passenger had died. Meanwhile Australia's Director of Public Health Corina Grey said today the country's health services had the capacity to support any quarantine measures if required.…