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Hantavirus: what happens to cruise ship passengers now and will they quarantine?
Up to 150 passengers and crew from hantavirus-hit MV Hondius start flying home aboard military and government planes from Spain’s Canary Islands
TL;DR
- Up to 150 passengers and crew from the MV Hondius are flying home from the Canary Islands.
- The WHO recommends a 42-day quarantine with daily symptom checks.
- Countries like the UK, Australia, France, Greece, and Spain have varying quarantine and isolation measures in place.
- The US will assess risk levels for its evacuees at a quarantine facility in Nebraska.
- The ship will undergo inspection, disinfection, and rodent control measures.
- Officials have stressed that the global public health risk from this outbreak is low.