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Everyone on hantavirus-hit ship 'high-risk contact', must be monitored — WHO
By Agence France-Presse
May 10, 2026 12:28 am

The World Health Organization said Saturday it considers everyone on board a cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak as 'high-risk' contacts who should be actively monitored for 42 days.

'We classify everybody on board as what we call a high-risk contact,' WHO's epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention director Maria Van Kerkhove told a social media event, adding that 'active monitoring and follow-up of all the passengers and crew who disembark for a 42-day period' was recommended.

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