{"id":11493,"date":"2026-05-14T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/11493\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:41:06","slug":"france-and-netherlands-say-all-hantavirus-contact-cases-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/11493\/","title":{"rendered":"France and Netherlands say all hantavirus contact cases negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n              Updated 21 sec ago            <\/p>\n<p>\n                May 14, 2026 15:53              <\/p>\n<p>\n              France and Netherlands say all hantavirus contact cases negative\n            <\/p>\n<p>              <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4712276-1370936934.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>            <\/p>\n<p>                                      \u201cAs of today, all close contacts of a person who tested positive for hantavirus, present in France, have tested negative, without exception,\u201d said Rist<br \/>\n                                      The 26 individuals will be tested three times a week as a precautionary measure<\/p>\n<p>\n                  Updated 21 sec ago                <\/p>\n<p>\n                  AFP                 <\/p>\n<p>\n                  May 14, 2026 15:53                <\/p>\n<p>\n\tPARIS: France\u2019s health minister said Thursday that 26 people in France identified as close contacts of hantavirus cases linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship had tested negative for the illness.<br \/>Dutch authorities said that all people who arrived in the Netherlands on evacuation flights from the ship this week have also tested negative.<br \/>Twenty-six people are in hospital isolation in France, including 22 identified as close contacts of a Dutch woman on the MV Hondius that was at the center of an international alert for the rare disease typically transmitted by rodents.<br \/>French doctors are monitoring four others who were on the ship, while a fifth French passenger tested positive for hantavirus and is in serious condition in a French hospital.<br \/>\u201cAs of today, all close contacts of a person who tested positive for hantavirus, present in France, have tested negative, without exception,\u201d said Health Minister Stephanie Rist on X.<br \/>Twenty-two of the individuals in France were on a flight from the Atlantic island of Saint Helena to Johannesburg, or on a Johannesburg-Amsterdam flight that a Dutch passenger was to have taken. The Dutch woman was taken off the flight and died in a South African hospital.<br \/>The 26 individuals will be tested three times a week as a precautionary measure, Rist said.<br \/>Globally three people from the Hondius have died, six are confirmed to have hantavirus, there is one probable case and one US passenger had symptoms but recorded a negative test, according to a count from official figures.<br \/>Health authorities have said there is a low risk to the wider public.<br \/>Meanwhile, the European Union said it would step up the exchange of information between its 27 members states to better combat hantavirus. France on Tuesday called for \u201ccloser coordination\u201d on EU health protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated 21 sec ago May 14, 2026 15:53 France and Netherlands say all hantavirus contact cases negative \u201cAs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-netherlands","8":"tag-netherlands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}