The danger of a propagation d’Hantavirus for the world inhabitants is “completely low”, assured the World Well being Group (WHO) on Friday, after the looks of an outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius, of which three passengers died.
“It is a harmful virus, however solely to the one that is definitely contaminated. THE risk to the population usually stays extraordinarily low,” a WHO spokesperson, Christian Lindmeier, advised the press in Geneva.
“Under no circumstances like measles”
The latter pressured that even amongst individuals who stayed in the identical cabins as an contaminated particular person on board the cruise ship “MV Hondius”“it seems that, in some circumstances, each aren’t contaminated.”
“It is in no way like measles, for instance: for those who’re right here within the press room and somebody within the entrance coughs, the entrance rows could be in peril. Shut contact implies that you virtually must be nostril to nostril (…) This isn’t a new Covid “, he insisted.
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Departing on April 1 from Ushaïa, Argentina, the Hondius, which belongs to the Dutch cruise line Oceanwide Expeditions, is at the moment heading to Tenerife, within the Canary Islands, the place it’s anticipated on Sunday. Three passengers on the ship died, whereas a contemporary report from the WHO on Thursday counted a complete of 5 confirmed circumstances for three suspected cases.
