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    Spain says it has detected suspected hantavirus case in Alicante (Mainland Spain)

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    1. SafeImpressive4413 on

      >A 32-year-old woman in the southeastern Spanish ​province of Alicante has symptoms consistent with ‌a hantavirus infection and is being tested, Spanish health officials said on Friday.

      >The woman was a passenger on the same flight as a patient ​who died in Johannesburg after travelling on the MV ​Hondius cruise ship and contracting the virus, Secretary of ⁠State for Health Javier Padilla told reporters

      >Authorities have ​identified the Andes strain of hantavirus on the ​ship, a version that can spread from human to human in rare cases, typically only after close contact.

      >The woman has “mild respiratory ​symptoms” and is being transferred to a hospital ​in the city of Alicante where she will be tested ‌for ⁠the virus, with results expected 24 to 48 hours later, according to a statement on the regional health department’s website.

      >Padilla said the woman, a resident of ​Alicante in the ​Valencia region, ⁠was sitting two rows behind the cruise ship passenger, but the contact between ​them “was brief” since the passenger had ​only been “on ⁠board for a short time” during the flight.

      >Padilla added that Valencia’s regional health authorities were tracing the ⁠people ​the woman has been in contact ​with over the past few days.

    2. Twisbi on

      So this virus has a high mortality rate but can also incubate and spread for 8 weeks? That doesn’t sound like something that will burn itself out quickly.

    4. tenax21 on

      If the incubation period is two months, why is she showing “symptoms” so soon? She is just coughing after a flight. It ain’t hanta.

    5. windingsand on

      Just when I thought we were in the clear when the flight attendant tested negative

    6. maybemyfirstrodeo on

      Genuine question, given this has a much higher mortality rate, would it be much less likely to be widespread than COVID?

    8. SilverFox6 on

      Suspected. Wait until the test results are in before drawing conclusions. The flight attendant was tested negative as well.

    12. RoCKSLAM on

      I swear at this point the media is so starved of anything virus related that they would report on somebody sneezing in east Asia with DEADLY VIRUS SYMPTOM IN MOST POPULATED REGION, PANIC

    13. superseven27 on

      On the one hand I wish almost nobody to have Hanta…on the other handnI wanna work from home again

    15. give_me_goats on

      I get mild sickness within 2 days almost any time I get on a plane. It happened enough times that I now mask up and sanitize my hands constantly when I fly. But my point is that there are always viruses circulating, and the transmission is amplified in close quarters like an airplane. She probably has something, but it’s unlikely to be hantavirus.

    16. Marieshivje on

      People act so hysterical about this. Within a month this will be forgotten except for those poor people that were in fact infected and died.

    17. McGirton on

      Okay, somebody gotta make a live case tracker map like in when covid started and it was just a few cases.

    19. Guilty-Big-4263 on

      so this has started yet again, what’s the solution before it spreads like covid?

    20. PistolPackingPastor on

      The media is really running wild with this hantavirus shit lol they know it’ll rile people up and get them those sweet, sweet clicks.

    22. Miiirob on

      Hopefully the WHO doesn’t overshare with that one country that recently left and basically said they were useless.

    23. Michoffkoch87 on

      “Check back every 5 to 10 seconds to drive up our traffic numbers… I mean stay up to date.”

    26. rictay44 on

      They should never have let anybody off that ship. It should have been quarantined.