🚨🇬🇧 HANTAVIRUS UPDATE: The outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship has killed 3 people and infected at least 8, with cases now traced across the UK, Netherlands, and Switzerland.
It originated in Argentina a month ago. No one knows how.
One British patient, a former police officer, was airlifted to the Netherlands mid-voyage and is now stable. Two more UK nationals are self-isolating at home.
The fear with this virus is how fast it turns. No warning. No slow decline. One day stable, the next critical.
Contact tracing is now active across multiple countries for a disease that rarely clusters like this.
And we really need to “stop the spread” this time.
Source: BBC
What is Hantavirus, exactly?
-Causes respiratory and cardiac problems hemorrhagic fevers
-Normally transmitted to humans by infected rodents
-Only a rare variant, the Andes strain (what's been reported on MV Hondius), spreads between humans