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New hantavirus cases confirmed as UK cruise ship passengers are quarantined

The Independent·Dan Haygarth·22 days ago
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Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. All News Sport Culture Lifestyle Britons evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise arrive in UK for isolation Three new cases of hantavirus have been identified among passengers repatriated from the MV Hondius cruise ship. A French woman tested positive after being evacuated to Paris , and two American passengers also tested positive after being flown to Nebraska. Twenty British passengers, who were tested before their flight, are now in isolation at Arrowe Park Hospital in Merseyside after arriving at Manchester Airport . The UK Health Security Agency has initiated contact tracing for individuals who had contact with those evacuated from the affected cruise ship. These new cases contradict earlier statements from Spanish health officials, the World Health Organisation, and Oceanwide Expeditions, which claimed no symptoms were present among the ship's passengers.…

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