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Vacationing doctor who stepped in to treat hantavirus patients on MV Hondius tests positive for virus
A vacationing doctor who stepped in to treat hantavirus patients on the MV Hondius after the ship’s chief medic fell ill is isolating inside a biocontainment unit after also contracting the virus. Retired oncologist. This cluster currently includes 17 articles from 8 sources.
This cluster currently includes 17 articles from 8 sources. Sources in this event include NBC News, Fox News, PBS NewsHour, and others.
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More confirmed hantavirus cases: The situation in France
A French passenger who was on a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus and her condition is deteriorating, French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said on Monday. The passenger was among five French people who were on the ship. The four other passengers tested negative. So far.
Cruise passenger shows life inside Nebraska quarantine after hantavirus exposure scare
Rosmarin takes viewers inside a specialized unit designed to contain the deadly hantavirus. (@jakerosmarin/Instagram) One of the passengers aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship posted video showing his quarantine room at the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha as officials.
French hantavirus patient is critically ill and on an artificial lung as outbreak grows to 11
A French woman infected with hantavirus after being repatriated from the MV Hondius cruise ship has the “most severe form of cardiopulmonary presentation,” a doctor at the Paris hospital treating her said Tuesday. (AP Video by Oleg Cetinic) The WHO said it has confirmed 11 cases, including three people from the cruise.
Twenty-two people set to leave hospital after hantavirus isolation
Six people evacuated to the UK from a cruise ship after a hantavirus outbreak are returning home or to suitable accommodation to complete a 45-day isolation period. They have been isolating in Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral for 72 hours after being removed from the ship, and have tested negative for the virus. Their.
French hantavirus patient is critically ill as outbreak grows to 11
An ambulance enters the Bichat Hospital where a woman who tested positive for hantavirus remains in intensive care, in Paris, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. Michel Euler/AP hide caption PARIS — A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial.
Possible Illinois hantavirus case not linked to outbreak on MV Hondius cruise ship
A suspected hantavirus case is being investigated in Illinois — but is not linked to the outbreak that killed three passengers on the MV Hondius cruise ship, according to health officials. The sickened resident of Winnebago County didn’t travel abroad and most likely picked up the virus while cleaning a home that had.
France intensifies hantavirus surveillance as 22 contact cases identified
The hantavirus outbreak has now reached 11 total reported cases, 9 of which have been confirmed. In France, a woman infected in the deadly virus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday. With 22 contact cases in the country overall.
Hantavirus: How was ‘patient zero’ infected?
A Dutch ornithologist may be "patient zero" in the new hantavirus outbreak – a theory currently favored by the World Health Organisation. The 70 year old was the first person to die aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. But how and where did he come into contact with the virus?
The everyday places Americans could be exposed to hantavirus — without knowing it
Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel details federal monitoring of 18 American passengers after a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship on ‘The Story.’ Amid the current hantavirus outbreak that started on the MV Hondius cruise ship as it sailed across the Atlantic, health experts are now examining whether.
1,700 stranded on cruise ship in France after traveler’s death blamed on norovirus
More than 1,700 people are trapped aboard a cruise ship docked in France after a 90-year-old passenger died from suspected norovirus — just days after a separate virus killed three and sickened multiple others on a different cruise. Passengers and crew traveling on the Ambassador Cruise Line are being forced to remain.
Vacationing doctor who stepped in to treat hantavirus patients on MV Hondius tests positive for virus
A vacationing doctor who stepped in to treat hantavirus patients on the MV Hondius after the ship’s chief medic fell ill is isolating inside a biocontainment unit after also contracting the virus. Retired oncologist Stephen Kornfeld was put in isolation after landing in Omaha, Nebraska – but told CNN Tuesday he’s.
Woman isolating on British island in South Pacific after hantavirus contact
A woman is isolating on the Pitcairn Islands, a remote British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific, after travelling on a hantavirus-hit cruise ship. A local government spokesperson told the BBC the person "had contact with a hantavirus-exposed individual" but was "showing no signs of illness". The UK foreign.
Operator of hantavirus-hit ship will say by week's end when the vessel will resume cruises
Elena Becatoros, Associated Press Elena Becatoros, Associated Press Devi Shastri, Associated Press Devi Shastri, Associated Press The operator of the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak told The Associated Press Wednesday that it expects to know by the end of the week if the vessel will keep to its.
Dutch hospital quarantines 12 staffers following hantavirus protocol breach
AMSTERDAM/MADRID, May 12 (Reuters) – A Dutch hospital has quarantined 12 staff members as a preventive measure after blood and urine from a hantavirus patient were handled without observing strict protocols, as medics around the world work to stop the spread of the outbreak . The 12 will be quarantined for six weeks.
Critically ill French hantavirus patient is on an artificial lung as outbreak grows to 11
Thomas Adamson, Associated Press Thomas Adamson, Associated Press Russ Bynum, Associated Press Russ Bynum, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the.
Reported hantavirus protocol breach at hospital forces 12 employees into 6-week quarantine
Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, family and emergency medicine physician, discusses the 16 Americans quarantined in Nebraska for hantavirus, with one previously infected patient detailing his mild symptoms. A Dutch hospital has quarantined a dozen staff members after reports of a protocol breach involving a patient infected.
CDC encourages cruise ship passengers to remain at Omaha facility
The CDC says it is encouraging the cruise ship passengers exposed to a deadly Hantavirus outbreak to remain at the special medical facility in Nebraska for the entirety of their 42 day monitoring period. NBC News’ Camila Bernal reports.