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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

WHO chief declares hantavirus outbreak over

2026-07-03

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[REGNUM.RU] The World Health Organization (WHO) considers the hantavirus outbreak associated with the MV Hondius cruise ship over. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced this at a press conference on July 2.

According to him, earlier that day, the last person who had been in contact with the passenger on the plane was released from quarantine and tested negative for hantavirus. Furthermore, no new cases of the disease have been recorded since May 25.

In May, hantavirus was detected among passengers on the MV Hondius cruise ship, en route from Argentina to Cape Verde. According to the WHO, 11 cases of infection were confirmed on the ship, with several more cases identified in people unrelated to the ship. Three people died. After the ship arrived in the port of Rotterdam, it underwent deep disinfection, and passengers, crew members, and those who had been in contact with the infected individuals were quarantined.

On May 26, the Spanish Ministry of Health announced that hantavirus had been confirmed in another Spanish citizen evacuated from the MV Hondius and placed under preventive quarantine. The patient was transferred to a special isolation ward and was being closely monitored.

Virologist and Russian Academy of Sciences academician Sergei Netesov told Regnum news agency that the hantavirus's entry into Russia is unlikely, as it is very rarely transmitted from person to person. On May 12, Rospotrebnadzor reported that no outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, caused by a local variant of hantavirus, have been detected in Russia since the beginning of the year. Measures have been taken at the border to prevent the virus from entering the country.

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