🇿🇦 South Africa 5d ago · Jarryd Westerdale

Three cruise passengers dead after rare zoonotic virus infection, one hospitalised in Joburg

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Three cruise passengers dead after rare zoonotic virus infection, one hospitalised in Joburg
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Three people have died, and one is being treated in intensive care after the outbreak of a rare zoonotic virus on a cruise liner.



The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Sunday evening that a total of six cases of Hantavirus had been reported from a cruise liner in the Atlantic Ocean.



A Johannesburg hospital is reportedly treating one patient, with another patient dying in South Africa while being transferred to Europe.



Hantavirus is contracted through exposure to the bodily fl

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