Isolation in hospitals and negative results…the latest developments in the Hanta virus in Europe
France announced on Thursday that 26 people had been in contact with those infected with is related to the cruise ship "MV Hondius" Their test results were negative for the disease.
In turn, the Dutch authorities said that all people who arrived in the Netherlands on evacuation flights from the ship this week had negative test results.
Isolation in hospitals
26 people are subject to isolation in In France, 22 of them were identified as having been in close contact with a Dutch woman who was on board the cruise ship that was the focus of an international alert about the rare disease that is usually transmitted by rodents.
French doctors are following up on four others who were on the ship, while a fifth French passenger tested positive for the Hanta virus and is in serious condition in a French hospital.
Hanta virus
And 22 people were currently isolated in France, on a flight. A flight from the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean to Johannesburg, or on a flight from Johannesburg to Amsterdam that was scheduled to be carried by a Dutch passenger who was taken off the plane and died in a hospital in South Africa.
Globally, three people who were infected with the
