{"id":14745,"date":"2026-05-14T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/14745\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:48:08","slug":"all-26-people-under-hantavirus-observation-in-france-tested-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/14745\/","title":{"rendered":"All 26 people under hantavirus observation in France tested negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All 26 people under observation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/france\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">France<\/a> for possible hantavirus infection have tested negative, French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said in a post to X\/Twitter on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Rist explained that all 26 had been placed in quarantine in the hospital as a precautionary measure, but that it is now possible &#8220;to rule out any prior contamination of other individuals at this stage of the scientific work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;These 26 people will continue to be medically monitored and tested three times a week,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;From now on, health authorities will no longer communicate these results, except in the event of a positive test.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The recent cases of hantavirus first sparked global concern after three passengers died and several others tested positive aboard the cruise ship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-895636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MV Hondius.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/health-and-wellness\/article-895242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hantavirus<\/a> belongs to a family of viruses transmitted mainly by rodents, which shed the virus through urine, feces, and saliva. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-895478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Humans are then infected<\/a> when tiny particles from the dried secretions become airborne and are inhaled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Such exposure can occur while cleaning a storage room, attic, equipment shed, cabin, summer home, or any enclosed area where mice or rats were present. Infection can also occur after touching a contaminated surface and then touching the mouth, nose, or eyes. Rodent bites or scratches are another possible route of transmission, although less common.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Itay Gal contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All 26 people under observation in France for possible hantavirus infection have tested negative, French Health Minister Stephanie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,9949,11356,10301],"class_list":{"0":"post-14745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-france","9":"tag-hantavirus","10":"tag-rats","11":"tag-virus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}