Hantavirus outbreak risk to public ‘absolutely low’: WHO

The World Health Organization said Friday that the risk to the public of a deadly hantavirus strain in a cruise ship outbreak was minimal, as it spreads only through “very close contact”.

“This is a dangerous virus, but only to the person who’s really infected, and the risk to the general population remains absolutely low,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a press briefing in Geneva.

He pointed out that even people who had stayed in the same cabins on the stricken MV Hondius cruise ship “don’t seem to be both infected in some cases”.

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