Thursday, 7 May 2026 - 10:00 Share this article: Update 10:13 a.m. - Article updated to add the latest information about medical evacuations in the bottom six paragraphs A KLM flight attendant from Haarlem has been hospitalized due to a possible hantavirus infection. She came into contact with the 69-year-old Dutch woman who died of the virus in Johannesburg, South Africa. The flight attendant is in isolation at Amsterdam UMC with mild symptoms. She is currently being tested for the hantavirus, the Ministry of Public Health confirmed to RTL Nieuws . The Dutch woman died of the hantavirus in a hospital in Johannesburg on April 26. A day earlier, she had been on board a KLM plane at the O.R. Tambo International Airport for a “short period” before KLM staff asked her to disembark because she was sick. After the woman was removed from the aircraft, the flight departed from Johannesburg to Amsterdam at 11:15 p.m. on April 25. The flight attendant now hospitalized in Amsterdam worked on that flight.…