香港卫生部门正向世界卫生组织索取更多关于大西洋邮轮汉坦病毒爆发的信息，同时加强预防措施以保护城市免受该罕见疾病影响。
香港卫生署卫生防护中心于周四表示，已就MV Hondius号邮轮上的汉坦病毒群集病例联系世界卫生组织。该船于4月1日从阿根廷出发。
世卫组织报告称，船上已有三人死亡，八例疑似病例中五例已获确认。首名患者于4月6日出现症状。
进一步检测显示，两例确诊病例的病毒属于安第斯基因型，这是目前已知唯一可有限人际传播的汉坦病毒类型。香港过去五年平均每年录得零至两例汉坦病毒感染。
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A hantavirus outbreak has been confirmed on the MV Hondius cruise ship, resulting in three deaths. The vessel, which departed Ushuaia on April 1, is heading to Tenerife where passengers will begin evacuation on Monday.
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 Swiss man who left the MV Hondius cruise ship at Saint Helena has been confirmed infected with Andes hantavirus and is now isolated in a Zurich hospital. The ship, which has seen three deaths from the outbreak, is heading to Tenerife for passenger evacuation.
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The MV Hondius cruise ship, carrying 149 people including 14 Spaniards, remains anchored off Praia's coast in Cape Verde. Local authorities have denied docking due to fears of a hantavirus outbreak that has caused three deaths. Operator Oceanwide Expeditions is considering ports in Las Palmas or Tenerife as alternatives.
Health authorities in Paraná confirmed two hantavirus cases this year on Friday, both unrelated to the outbreak under investigation on a cruise ship monitored by the WHO.
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Spain's government, in coordination with the WHO, has approved the MV Hondius cruise ship—stranded off Cape Verde amid a hantavirus outbreak that killed three—to dock in the Canary Islands within three or four days. Three passengers, including a gravely ill doctor, will be airlifted first for treatment.