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U.S. and French Nationals Test Positive for Hantavirus After Leaving Cruise Ship
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U.S. and French Nationals Test Positive for Hantavirus After Leaving Cruise Ship

TIME·Tiago Ventura·22 days ago
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An American and a French national, who have returned to their respective home countries after being evacuated from the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, have both tested positive. A French woman who was evacuated from the MV Hondius and repatriated to Paris on Sunday tested positive for the virus and her health is deteriorating, French Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said Monday. The woman was one of five French passengers who left the ship over the weekend and is now in a specialist infectious disease hospital. Per Rist, 22 contact cases have been traced. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Sunday night that one of the 17 passengers being repatriated to the United States had tested “mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus” and another had developed “mild symptoms.” According to the BBC, a British national who resides in the U.S. was evacuated along with the 17 American passengers.…

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