ALBAWABA - An American citizen on board the cruise ship tested positive for Hantavirus, US officials announced. This comes amid the operation to repatriate passengers following the deadly virus outbreak, which left three people dead.
Moreover, the French Ministry of Health confirmed its first case of Hantavirus. AFP reported that a French national evacuated from a cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak tested positive.
The operation to repatriate passengers continued into Monday.
The three people who died on the MV Hondius cruise ship were a Dutch couple and a German woman.
No vaccines or specific treatments are currently available for hantavirus, which is endemic in Argentina, where the ship departed in April, before the virus became an outbreak. Health workers said that the risk to global public health is low.
The operation evacuated 94 people of 19 different nationalities on Sunday, Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia said in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.
