WHO Chief to Address Hantavirus Outbreak as Deaths Mount on Cruise Ship

Three cruise ship passengers have died from the Andes hantavirus outbreak; additional patients were evacuated to the Netherlands.

A Dutch expedition cruise ship that departed Argentina in early April has become the center of a rare and sobering public health event: three passengers have died from Andes hantavirus, the only strain of the pathogen known to pass directly between human beings. As passengers and crew have since dispersed across multiple countries, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called a global briefing to address what is known, what remains uncertain, and what the world should understand about the risk. In moments like these, the distance between a remote voyage and a global concern colla

WHO Chief to Address Hantavirus Outbreak as Deaths Mount on Cruise Ship

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