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Scramble to evacuate two people from cruise ship amid suspected hantavirus outbreak

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Cape Verde blocks MV Hondius from docking in order ‘to protect public health’ after deaths of three passengersWhat is hantavirus, the infection thought to have killed three on cruise ship?Medics are scrambling to evacuate two people from a luxury cruise ship stranded off the coast of Cape Verde, after a suspected outbreak of a rare respiratory virus killed three people, left three others seriously ill and forced nearly 150 people from across the world to isolate onboard.The plight of the MV Hondius, which set off in March from southern Argentina carrying 149 people from 23 countries, emerged late on Sunday after the World Health Organization said it was investigating a suspected outbreak of hantavirus, a disease primarily found in rodents. Continue reading...

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