Hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrives in Tenerife; WHO chief reassures residents

Three passengers died from hantavirus infection; five additional confirmed cases; potential exposure risk to 24+ people who left ship without contact tracing on April 24.

A Dutch cruise ship carrying the shadow of hantavirus — three dead, five infected, and the rare Andes strain capable of human-to-human transmission — arrived in Tenerife on Sunday morning, where WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stood waiting to oversee the evacuation and calm a world still tender from pandemic memory. The crisis, which unfolded over nearly three weeks at sea among passengers from more than twenty nations, now extends its uncertain reach into the weeks ahead, as the virus's long incubation period leaves the full human toll unwritten. In the gap between what is known and wha

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrives in Tenerife; WHO chief reassures residents

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