WHO tracing contacts of hantavirus cruise ship passenger

The World Health Organisation said Tuesday that it was trying to trace people on a flight between the island of Saint Helena and Johannesburg taken by a cruise ship passenger who died of hantavirus.

The Dutch woman, whose husband died of the virus on the ship now stuck off Cape Verde,  disembarked in Saint Helena with “gastrointestinal symptoms” on April 24.

Her condition “deteriorated during a flight to Johannesburg” and she died on April 26, WHO said. “Contact tracing for passengers on the flight has been initiated,” it said.

AFP

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