Japan downplays hantavirus risk as cruise ship outbreak spreads

Eight confirmed hantavirus cases aboard cruise ship with three deaths reported; one Japanese national among 150 passengers and crew.

A rare hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius has drawn the attention of health ministries across the world, including Japan's, which moved this week to steady public nerves as the ship carries eight confirmed cases and three deaths through African waters toward the Canary Islands. The virus, most often passed through contact with infected rodents and lethal in roughly half of all cases, does not easily move between people — a distinction that health officials say keeps the broader risk manageable, even as one former passenger has already tested positive in Switzerland. In the long human st

Japan downplays hantavirus risk as cruise ship outbreak spreads

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