Other passengers of the KLM plane that had a woman on board in South Africa for a “short time” who later died of the hantavirus are now “in the picture” of the GGD. The NOS late Wednesday evening. This would involve three hundred travelers, each of whom would receive a letter about what to do in case of complaints. The crew and some passengers are called every day by the GGD to monitor their health, the health service told NOS. They provided assistance to the 69-year-old woman, whose husband died at the end of April from the effects of the hantavirus. The woman was so ill that she was ultimately not flown to the Netherlands, she died in a hospital in Johannesburg.
Argentina, where the cruise ship MV Hondius departed on which there were apparently people infected with the hantavirus, is trying “with all its might” to find out whether the country is the source of the virus outbreak. This is what the AP news agency writes. The Argentine health ministry wants to catch and examine rodents near the southern city of Ushuaia. Argentina will also send supplies to laboratories in the Netherlands and Spain, among others, to carry out diagnostic tests for the hantavirus.
Meanwhile, a second evacuation flight with a sick British cruise ship passenger on board is on its way to the Netherlands. This was reported by the ANP news agency on Thursday. The 56-year-old Briton, part of the crew of the Hondius, has symptoms of the hantavirus. On Wednesday evening, the first evacuation flight landed at Schiphol, with a 41-year-old Dutchman and a 65-year-old German on board.
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