Two new suspected cases of hantavirus were \u2060reported on Friday, one in Spain and the other on the remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, as experts race to contain an outbreak that began on a luxury cruise ship.<\/p>\n
The announcements in locations thousands of kilometres apart will fuel concern about a cluster of cases so far associated with three deaths \u2013 though the World Health Organization has repeatedly said the risk to the wider public is low and the virus does not transmit easily.<\/p>\n
The latest reports involved a man who fell ill after leaving the ship and a woman who became sick after sitting near an infected cruise passenger on a plane.<\/p>\n
A 32-year-old woman in the southeastern Spanish province of Alicante has symptoms consistent with a hantavirus infection and is being tested, Spanish health authorities said.<\/p>\n
She \u200cwas briefly sitting on a plane behind a Dutch woman who had contracted the virus on the MV Hondius, Secretary of State for Health Javier Padilla told reporters. That Dutch woman left the flight in Johannesburg before it took off on April 25 feeling ill and later died in hospital.<\/p>\n
A British man was also suspected of having the disease on Tristan da Cunha, the UK Health Security Agency said. Officials there said he was a passenger on the Dutch-flagged ship which made a stop on the island on April 13 to 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two new suspected cases of hantavirus were \u2060reported on Friday, one in Spain and the other on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[978,10489,4027,10111,647,9587,10460,9790,10662,8445,6110,17,10491,10495,1924],"class_list":{"0":"post-19813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-alicante","9":"tag-andes-strain","10":"tag-argentina","11":"tag-cabo-verde","12":"tag-canary-islands","13":"tag-hantavirus","14":"tag-javier-padilla","15":"tag-mv-hondius","16":"tag-oceanwide","17":"tag-singapore","18":"tag-south-africa","19":"tag-spain","20":"tag-stephen-doughty","21":"tag-tristan-da-cunha","22":"tag-world-health-organization"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}