A 32-year-old woman, originally from Alicante, Spain, was admitted because she presented “symptoms compatible” with the hantavirussince there would be been in contact with a woman from Johannesburg who later diedin addition to having traveled on the cruise ship where an outbreak of the disease occurred.
According to information from the Ministry of Health, the woman will be transferred to a room with negative pressure in a hospital in the province of Alicante.
The Spanish health authorities reported that they contacted the patient after receive an alert from the European Alert System.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Health of Spain indicated that it will report on the evolution of the patient’s condition “in coherence with the relevance to the interest of citizens in a public health issue that has transcended internationally.”
According to authorities, the patient has mild respiratory symptoms and samples are scheduled to be taken. to transfer them to the National Center for Microbiology.
In addition, the Secretary of State for Health of Spain, Javier Padilla, confirmed that there is a second person who was in contact with the deceased woman, but who is in South Africa.
The MV Cruise Hondius It set sail on April 1 from Ushuaia, southern Argentina, to cross the South Atlantic. During the tripthree people died due to the Andes strain of the hantavirus, the only one for which transmission between humans has been documented, and four others presented symptoms of varying intensity.
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