JOHANNESBURG: On the morning of May 1, South African infectious disease expert Lucille Blumberg was checking her email as she celebrated the Labor Day holiday in South Africa when an urgent message caught her eye.A British colleague monitoring disease in a remote British overseas territory in the South Atlantic once wrote about a passenger on … Read more
There is a crazy saying on social media, Hantavirus Can shrink a person penis Increases up to three inches in size. It is important to note that these claims come from unverified social media accounts and there is no scientific evidence to support these claims. Hantaviruses are usually spread among rodents, but the Andes strain … Read more
Indian-born scientist Jay Bhattacharya has urged Americans not to panic over a hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship off Spain’s Canary Islands, insisting the situation is “not COVID-19” and is unlikely to turn into a large-scale public health crisis.The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told CNN’s “State of … Read more
Passengers disembark from the hantavirus-infected cruise ship MV Hondius (AP Photo) The quarantined cruise ship began disembarking on Sunday after arriving in Tenerife, Spain’s Canary Islands, as an outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship sparked international concern.The MV Hondius sailed from Cape Verde on May 6 and arrived in Tenerife early Sunday following a … Read more
. Health authorities are scrambling to trace dozens of people who recently disembarked from the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius following a hantavirus outbreak that killed three people and infected many others.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), five of the eight suspected cases have been confirmed. Among the dead was a 69-year-old Dutch woman … Read more
a suspected Hantavirus Outbreak on MV Hondius cruise ship off African coast, killing one three passengers. One of the deaths has been confirmed to be hantavirus, and the other cases are still under investigation, the New York Post reported. Three people have died on a cruise ship amid health concerns amid a suspected hantavirus outbreak. … Read more
