홍콩 보건 당국은 대서양을 운항하던 한 크루즈선에서 발생한 한타바이러스 집단 감염과 관련해 세계보건기구(WHO)에 추가 정보를 요청하는 한편, 시 차원의 방역 태세를 강화하고 있다.
홍콩 보건방호센터(Centre for Health Protection)는 목요일, MV 혼디우스(MV Hondius)호에서 발생한 한타바이러스 집단 감염 사태와 관련해 세계보건기구(WHO)에 연락을 취했다고 밝혔다. 해당 선박은 지난 4월 1일 아르헨티나에서 출항했다. WHO는 현재까지 3명이 사망했으며, 의심 사례 8건 중 5건이 확진되었다고 보고했다. 첫 번째 환자는 4월 6일부터 증상을 보이기 시작했다. 실험실 검사 결과, 확진 사례 중 2건에서 발견된 바이러스는 안데스 유전자형으로 확인되었으며, 이는 한타바이러스 중 유일하게 제한적인 사람 간 전파가 가능한 것으로 알려져 있다. 홍콩에서는 최근 5년간 연평균 0에서 2건의 한타바이러스 감염 사례가 보고된 바 있다.
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The World Health Organization reported on Monday nine cases of Andes virus hantavirus linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship, with seven confirmed. The vessel arrived in Spain's Tenerife last weekend, where over 90 passengers were evacuated under health supervision.
The World Health Organization has confirmed five cases and three deaths from hantavirus aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius, while stressing that the virus’s limited transmission route makes a wider outbreak unlikely.
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The World Health Organization stated that the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship poses no elevated global risk. Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday there are no similarities to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Three people have died and eight suspected cases are under investigation on board.
A day-long operation to repatriate passengers and crew from the MV Hondius cruise ship struck by hantavirus neared completion late Sunday with 94 people flown home from Spain’s Canary Islands. Three passengers have died from the outbreak that began after the vessel departed Argentina in April. Health officials stressed the risk to the public remains low.
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The MV Hondius cruise ship, where three passengers have died from hantavirus, is approaching Spain's Canary Islands for evacuation of most of its nearly 150 passengers.
Two French passengers on the MV Hondius described their near-normal daily life aboard the ship under international health alert, following three deaths reported since April 11.
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None of the 38 Filipino crew members on the MV Hondius are ill amid a suspected hantavirus outbreak that has killed three passengers, the Philippines' Department of Health confirmed on May 5, 2026. The ship remains in quarantine off Cape Verde with 149 people aboard as investigations continue.