French hantavirus patient critically ill on artificial lung as cruise outbreak reaches 11 cases

Three cruise ship passengers have died from hantavirus infection; one French woman is critically ill on life support with severe lung and heart complications.

Aboard an expedition cruise ship that crossed the Atlantic, a rare and deadly virus found its way from South American rodent habitats into the lungs of eleven passengers and crew — three of whom have died. The Andes hantavirus, carried unknowingly by a Dutch couple who had visited a garbage dump in Argentina, spread in ways that challenge the usual understanding of how this pathogen moves between people. Now, as a French woman lies on life support in Paris and the world's health authorities watch the incubation clock, this outbreak asks an ancient question anew: how far can a single moment of

French hantavirus patient critically ill on artificial lung as cruise outbreak reaches 11 cases

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