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11‏/5‏/2026

Hong Kong leverages ‘unrivalled’ medical hub status amid global hantavirus alarm

Hong Kong will serve as a global partner in pandemic preparedness, leveraging its “unrivalled” status as a medical innovation hub to combat emerging health threats such as a recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, the city’s leader and health chief have said. Speaking at the Asia Summit on Global Health on Monday, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu underscored the city’s commitment and strategic role in medical innovation. “Our status as a leading hub for scientific innovation is unrivalled...

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WHO says cruise ship hantavirus outbreak ‘not the start of a pandemic’

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7‏/5‏/2026

WHO says cruise ship hantavirus outbreak ‘not the start of a pandemic’

The World Health Organization insisted on Thursday that a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic did not mark the beginning of a Covid-like crisis. “This is not the start of an epidemic. This is not the start of a pandemic,” WHO epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention director Maria Van Kerkhove told reporters, insisting: “This is not Covid.” The WHO also said it expected the outbreak on the MV Hondius, currently sailing from Cape Verde to the Spanish island of...

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