A Dutch hospital has quarantined 12 staff members as a preventive measure after blood and urine from a hantavirus patient were handled without observing strict protocols. It comes as medics around the world work to stop the spread of the outbreak linked to the luxury cruise ship MV Hondius , which travelled through the South Atlantic and stopped at several places. Hantavirus is primarily spread by rodents but can be transmitted between people in rare cases, according to the World Health Organisation. It usually begins with flu-like symptoms, such as fatigue and fever, one to eight weeks after exposure. The WHO has increased its tally of confirmed cases in the outbreak to nine. It said further cases could materialise because of the long incubation period, but that this was not a pandemic, and nothing like Covid-19.…