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It was already expected that the Nijmegen hospital would admit a possibly infected hantavirus patient. Radboud university medical center has a lot of experience with patients with infectious diseases and the hospital also has an expert in that field: professor of outbreaks of infectious diseases Chantal Rovers.

It Radboudumc has admitted a passenger from the cruise ship Hondius, who may be infected with the hantavirus. This is reported by the Nijmegen hospital.

‘There are appropriate facilities in the department where the patient has been admitted isolation measures taken to prevent spread, in accordance with internationally agreed protocols,” a message said. ‘The team is specialized and trained in the care of patients with serious infectious diseases.

‘Patients and visitors are not at risk of infection in our UMC. No special measures are necessary when you visit us,” the hospital said.

There are no longer any passengers on the Hondius ship with symptoms. That reports shipping company Oceanwide in a new statement.

The company says it is in close contact with the relevant authorities now that it is sailing to the Canary Islands. Oeanwide let us know in the message that 30 passengers disembarked went on April 24, in St. Helena. The body of the deceased Frisian man also falls under that number. Earlier today, the Dutch foreign ministry said that there were ‘about 40 people’. The MV Hondius left on April 1 Argentina.

Oceanwide says it has contacted all guests who disembarked early.

With five people on the Hondius cruise ship is the hantavirus established. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported this to the ANP news agency. According to the organization, there are three more suspected cases. The possible infection of a KLM flight attendant is not included in these figures.

The WHO reported eight suspected cases on Wednesday, but only three had been confirmed by laboratory testing. A spokesperson said Thursday no further details yet about the new infections.

According to information from the WHO, it is possible that people infect each other with the hantavirus, but is that ‘unusual’? The experts talk about ‘limited transmission’ of the virus after close and prolonged contact.

WHO CEO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will give a press conference about the outbreak at 3 p.m. Dutch time.

About 40 passengers left the MV Hondius after the Dutch man from Friesland died. This is reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is not known where they all are now.

Also the wife of the deceased man went off the ship in Saint Helena. She later died of the hantavirus in a clinic near Johannesburg. South African authorities are tracking down anyone who was on the regional flight with her. The GGD has passengers geinformed who were briefly on board a KLM flight with her before flying to Amsterdam.

A KLM stewardess from Haarlem is in the Amsterdam UMC due to a possible hantavirus infection. “She is now being tested for the hantavirus,” says one spokesperson for the Ministry of Health to this site.

There are still no new infections demonstrated on the MV Hondius ship. This is what the shipping company answers to questions from this site. The World Health Organization reported yesterday that there are eight suspected cases, including a man who is now in Zurich. The MV Hondius is on its way to the Canary Islands and is expected to dock there on Saturday.

Of the suspected infections, three, including the Swiss man, indeed have the hantavirus, laboratory tests have shown. A spokesperson for the cruise line says no further tests positive have returned.

Under the circumstances, the passengers on the ship are doing well. “The atmosphere is mostly good and calm,” she says.

The second medical evacuation plane with a sick crew member from the Hondius ship has just landed at Schiphol. After arrival, the plane drove to the eastern part of Schiphol, where several ambulances were there waiting, saw an ANP photographer.

The aircraft left the Canary Islands on the night of Wednesday to Thursday.

The second medical evacuation plane with the 41-year-old Dutch crew member on board of the cruise ship Hondius is on its way to the Netherlands, Spanish media report. The aircraft stranded on the Canary Islands on Wednesday with technical problems.

The occupants of a flight last month in which a woman with the hantavirus have no symptoms yet. The South African health ministry reports this to the A.D.

The GGD has all passengers in view who were on the KLM plane in Johannesburg. The NOS reports this.

This concerns more than 300 passengers. The Dutch woman who had the hantavirus was on board for a short time, until she was turned away. The GGD says the crew and passengers who helped her to call daily for a health check. For example, they must measure their temperature every day.

Three American states are monitoring residents who were previously on the Dutch cruise ship Hondius. None of these individuals are showing symptoms of hantavirus, reports The New York Times.

It concerns two people the eastern state of Georgia, one person in Arizona in the southwestern United States and an unknown number of residents in the adjacent area California. It is not clear when these people left the Hondius.

The US Federal Health Service CDC emphasizes that the health risk to the American public is “extremely small.”

The crew member of cruise ship Hondius that one after arrival at Schiphol Wednesday evening to Dusseldorf was transported arrived there. The passenger is accommodated in it university hospital UKD in the German city.

The identity of the person has not been released. It is probably one 65 year old German woman who is closely related to a Hondius passenger who died on the cruise ship early this month. The hospital previously reported that the person is asymptomatic and is probably not infected with the virus.

Another passenger from the evacuation flight from Cape Verde was sent to it Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) brought. In addition to these two evacuees, a third crew member was evacuated from the cruise ship on a second medical flight. That plane is currently stranded in Gran Canaria.

The condition of the person on board the MV Hondius who is being cared for by the UKD academic hospital in Düsseldorf is stable. This was reported by the fire brigade of the German city, which is involved in the transport of the cruise ship passenger from Schiphol to Düsseldorf. There are no symptoms of infection, the fire brigade said in a statement.

The flight with the person on board arrived at Schiphol just before 8 p.m. on Wednesday. It is probably a 65-year-old German who is closely related to a Hondius passenger who died on the cruise ship at the beginning of this month. In the statement, the fire brigade does not say anything about the identity of the person being treated in Düsseldorf.

To contain the hantavirus outbreak Argentina the affected countries thousands of tests to detect the virus. The Netherlands also takes advantage of that offer. At the same time, the South American country is in a… statement about the possible location of the contamination.

It Spanish Ministry the Ministry of the Interior believes that the remaining passengers of the MV Hondius can be evacuated next Monday, writes the newspaper El Pais. The cruise ship is now expected to arrive in Tenerife on Saturday, but the passengers must remain on board until they are picked up two days later, it said in a statement.

The Spanish Ministry of Defense will ensure that all Spanish passengers are transferred to a hospital in Madrid. All EU member states also get the opportunity evacuate their own citizens. If a country is unable to do so, the European Commission will take responsibility for those European citizens. In any case, passengers are not allowed to disembark until their plane arrives.

The ambulances that left Schiphol earlier Wednesday evening with a suspected Dutch patient from the cruise ship MV Hondius are arrived at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC).

Two Argentinian researchers have told the AP news agency what their government currently believes is the most likely hypothesis that can explain the hantavirus outbreak on the Hondius cruise ship.

According to them, the deceased is being looked into Dutch couple that disembarked in Argentina for an excursion during which she birds started spotting. That took them to a landfill in Ushuaia. The two are said to have contracted the virus there, possibly through contact with the virus feces of infected rodents. Then they brought the virus on board.

The investigators testified anonymouslybecause they are not officially allowed to say anything about the investigation, which has not yet been completed. Authorities previously said that in Ushuaia and the surrounding province of Tierra del Fuego never an infection was registered with the hantavirus.

The Dutch and German emergency services that were ready at Schiphol to receive the medical evacuation flight from Cape Verde have left there againan ANP reporter sees. The flight from the Cape Verdean capital Praia landed at the airport just before 8 p.m. This is one of the two evacuation flights with passengers from the MV Hondius.

The reporter saw people white suits get off the plane. The German emergency services left about half an hour after the plane landed. The German fire engines drove away under engine escort. They are probably transporting the 65-year-old German who is closely related to a passenger of the Hondius who died on the ship at the beginning of this month.

Dutch ambulances also left the airport around 8:30 p.m. It is obvious that they are transporting the Dutch crew member who shows symptoms of the hantavirus.

The Hondius is left near Cape Verde. The cruise ship on which the hantavirus broke out is sailing towards the Canary Islands, according to public tracking information. Two epidemiologists have come on board, the Dutch government reports. Two Dutch medical specialists have also flown in and will sail along. It is unclear whether they are already on the ship.

There are still about 150 people on board. As far as we know, none of them have any complaints.

The ship is now on its way to Tenerife. The intention is that the passengers will receive a medical check and ultimately travel to their home country. The fact that the ship is going to the Canary Islands has led to political tensions with the Spanish government.