Two cruise ship passengers have tested positive for the rat-borne hantavirus after being evacuated from the vessel hit by an outbreak, underlining the global effort required to contain the often lethal illness.
Hantavirus was detected in passengers from the US and France hours after they were removed from the MV Hondius ship in the Spanish Canary Islands and flown home, according to authorities in the two countries.
On Sunday 94 of the 147 people on board the ship were evacuated and repatriated to several countries, where they will go into quarantine for at least a week and possibly much longer depending on symptoms and contact with confirmed cases.
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