Inside the Hantavirus Isolation Unit Where 15 Americans Wait

The National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska is now the temporary home for many of the Americans who had been passengers on the MV Hondius.

By Sonia A. Rao

‘Difficult’ mission to repatriate Australian hantavirus cruise passengers en route to long Perth quarantine

Health minister Mark Butler says six people from MC Hondius plus flight crew from charter plane to be isolated for weeks Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australians and New Zealanders who were aboard the deadly hantavirus-hit cruise ship will undergo the first three weeks of their quarantine at the Bullsbrook national resilience centre, just outside Perth. The flight crew that brings them back to the country...

By Stephanie Convery

Last passengers from hantavirus-hit ship evacuated; American tests positive

US officials say 18 Americans are being monitored for symptoms, as WHO insists risk to public remains low.

Two Maryland residents monitored for hantavirus after sharing flight with infected cruise ship passenger

Maryland monitors two residents for hantavirus exposure after they flew with a passenger infected with the Andes virus from the MV Hondius cruise ship.

Why were cruise ship passengers sent home amid a deadly outbreak? Your hantavirus questions answered

Now that most of the passengers of a luxury cruise ship are back in their home countries after a deadly outbreak was declared on board, questions and concerns about the illness continue to circulate. CBC News put some of your most asked hantavirus questions to the experts.

Hantavirus latest: Three more people infected with deadly virus as last passengers leave cruise ship

Labs of the American who tested positive found inconclusive

By Namita Singh and Dan Haygarth

Quest for a rare bird, a landfill stop, & a deadly virus: How did 'patient zero' catch hantavirus?

A Dutch ornithologist, Leo Schilperoord, has been identified as patient zero in a deadly hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship. Authorities suspect he and his wife contracted the virus from rat droppings during a birdwatching trip in Argentina. The outbreak led to multiple deaths and a global health alert.

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Greece Keeps Hantavirus Passenger in Hospital Isolation -Tourism Stakes Explain Harder Line Than Rest of Europe

Greece is holding a 75-year-old MV Hondius passenger in a negative-pressure hospital chamber -stricter than any other European country's response to the same exposure- because Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis says a reported outbreak in Greece at the peak of tourist season could become a global headline and devastate the economy. Speaking to Mega TV, Mr. Georgiadis confirmed the man remains asymptomatic and fever-free but said home isolation, the option chosen by other European nations for t...

By ANTHEE CARASSAVA

Hantavirus Cruise Ship Leaves Tenerife After WHO Wraps Evacuation Process; What Happens Next

The MV Hondius cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak has left Tenerife after WHO completed a large-scale evacuation and monitoring operation. Health authorities are now focused on contact tracing, quarantine and global surveillance.

Hantavirus ship heads to Netherlands after passengers flown home

The cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak headed to the Netherlands Tuesday after its last passengers disembarked in Spain's Canary Islands, with at least seven of the evacuees testing positive for the virus. Three people died after the rare virus that usually spreads among rodents was detected on board the MV Hondius, sparking a global health scare. Among living patients, seven cases have been confirmed and an eighth is listed as "probable," according to the WHO, the UN health body an

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Hopes Irish women on hantavirus-hit ship can do six-week quarantine in their homes

The two Irish women repatriated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship were still being clinically assessed and tested on Monday in hospital isolation facilities in Dublin amid hopes much of their six weeks of quarantine can take place in their own homes.

Last evacuation planes for MV Hondius land in Netherlands

The last two evacuation planes carrying passengers and crew from the hantavirus-hit ship MV Hondius landed in the Netherlands, according to AFP.

Hantavirus-hit ship sets sail for Netherlands as final passengers evacuated in Tenerife

Three people — a Dutch couple and a German national — have died since the start of the outbreak on the ship of the virus.

The 48-hour deadline DFAT faces for Australians returning from hantavirus-hit cruise

Four Australians, a New Zealand citizen and one permanent resident will spend three weeks in a quarantine facility near Perth.

US says 18 passengers flown back after hantavirus outbreak on ship

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials said on Monday that 18 passengers from the luxury cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak were flown back to the U.S. and quarantined, with the one passenger who tested positive in a Nebraska biocontainment unit. The passengers are currently being monitored for hantavirus at U.S. medical […]

Two Italians put under mandatory Hantavirus quarantine

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 11 - Local authorities have put two of the four Italian passengers on the KLM flight that briefly had aboard a South African woman who later died of Hantavirus in mandatory quarantine, sources said Monday. The first order was issued by Luigi Mennella, the mayor of Torre del Greco, near Naples, who signed an ordinance establishing a 45-day isolation period for a 24-year-old sailor, requiring him to remain in a single room with a private bathroom, undergo constant temperature...

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Hantavirus: How is the outbreak being contained? - The Daily Star

Hantavirus: How is the outbreak being contained?  The Daily Star

Hantavirus outbreak on MV Hondius: Four Ukrainian crew members to remain aboard cruise liner

Four of the five Ukrainian crew members aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius, where a hantavirus outbreak occurred, will remain on board to help deliver the vessel to the Netherlands, while one Ukrainian citizen will be evacuated on a special flight. No signs of illness have currently been detected among the Ukrainians.

Hantavirus: 12 Radboud hospital workers to quarantine due to slack safety measures

A dozen workers at the university medical center in Nijmegen will enter a precautionary quarantine after possible exposure to hantavirus.

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No evidence of Hantavirus in Iran: health ministry - Tehran Times

No evidence of Hantavirus in Iran: health ministry  Tehran Times

Deadly Hantavirus Outbreak On Cruise Ship Leaves 3 Dead, Passengers Stranded At Sea (hXf19DxU3b) - fathomjournal.org

Deadly Hantavirus Outbreak On Cruise Ship Leaves 3 Dead, Passengers Stranded At Sea (hXf19DxU3b)  fathomjournal.org