Extensive testing, contact tracing, and quarantine procedures are still needed to contain the outbreak, WHO says. However, it has stressed that the current outbreak is vastly different to the COVID-19 pandemic.
'Work not over,' says WHO after hantavirus evacuation
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Mon 15:46 - France 24
Inside the science of hantavirus transmission: 'Virus not known for human-to-human transmission'
Wed 11:26 - El Pais
This is the Andes virus, the only hantavirus strain that is transmitted from person to person
Thu 03:30 - El Pais
How has hantavirus been transmitted? Boat Outbreak Visual Explanation
Thu 13:31 - El Mundo (ES)
How did hantavirus get on the ship? Experts are betting on the hypothesis that the virus "came" on board
Thu 13:35 - El Pais
A 2018 outbreak on a birthday with 11 deaths shows that the Andean hantavirus is not only transmitted by close contact
Thu 20:59 - El Mundo (ES)
The eight confirmed cases of hantavirus show that very close contact is not necessary for contagion
Fri 03:30 - El Pais
Gustavo Palacios, hantavirus expert from the Andes: “This pathogen is more virulent and there can be chain infections”
Fri 09:27 - ANSA Mondo
KLM flight attendant tested negative for hantavirus
Fri 14:00 - El Mundo (ES)
Isolation with negative pressure and tests every 24 hours: this is the protocol for action in the event of suspected cases of hantavirus, such as the one detected in Alicante
Fri 20:51 - El Mundo (ES)
The suspicious case in Alicante threatens the hantavirus siege
Sat 10:55 - El Mundo (ES)
The Catalan woman who had contact with the Dutch woman who died from hantavirus is admitted asymptomatic to the Hospital Clínic
Sat 13:49 - El Pais
Breaking news on the hantavirus outbreak, live | Italy monitors four people for possible contact with a person who died from hantavirus
Sat 15:52 - Die Zeit Newsfeed
Hantavirus: What makes the virus dangerous – and how much concern is justified
Sat 20:47 - El Mundo (ES)
The epic of the Repettos, the first confined by the hantavirus in Tristan da Acuña and Santa Elena, the islands of eternal confinement
Mon 10:31 - DW All
Endemic, epidemic, pandemic: What's the difference?
Mon 10:31 - DW Top
Endemic, epidemic, pandemic: What's the difference?
Mon 13:38 - La Libre (BE)
Why hantavirus is “not a new Covid”, according to experts
Mon 13:44 - DW All
Hantavirus: How it differs from COVID
Mon 13:44 - DW Top
Hantavirus: How it differs from COVID
Mon 22:01 - The Hill
Hantavirus outbreak: Who is most at risk of catching the deadly virus?
Tue 04:04 - Aftenposten (NO)
Viruses know no boundaries
Tue 04:35 - La Libre (BE)
Symptoms, transmission, quarantine, risk of epidemic…: ten things to know about hantavirus
Tue 04:40 - Le Figaro
A year ago, the hantavirus already caused the death of Gene Hackman's wife
Tue 06:03 - SVT Nyheter (SE)
Government: Hantavirus will not cause a new pandemic
Tue 09:35 - BBC Headlines
No sign of larger hantavirus outbreak, says UN health agency
Tue 09:53 - France 24
How France works to beat the hantavirus chain of transmission
Tue 10:31 - Le Figaro
Where does the word “hantavirus” come from?
Tue 10:43 - DW All
'Work not over,' says WHO after hantavirus evacuation
Tue 10:43 - DW Top
'Work not over,' says WHO after hantavirus evacuation