The World Health Organization has insisted the hantavirus outbreak on board the MV Hondius cruise ship will not become a pandemic but admit more people could be infected amid fears the disease has spread across the world.
Health chiefs today confirmed five cases of the virus so far but reiterate the threat to the wider public remains low.
‘So far, eight cases have been reported, including three deaths. Five of the eight cases have been confirmed as hantavirus and the other three are suspected,’ WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists in Geneva.
‘The species of hantavirus involved in this case is the
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