US hantavirus case was false positive; outbreak cases drop from 11 to 10
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In a press briefing Friday, officials for the World Health Organization announced that the case count of the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius in the South Atlantic has shrunk from 11 cases to 10 after a previously reported US case was found to be a false positive.
That US case was originally reported by US health officials as "mildly positive," and the WHO had considered it "inconclusive," but still counted in the outbreak as a case in the agency's May 13 outbreak report and in
That US case was originally reported by US health officials as "mildly positive," and the WHO had considered it "inconclusive," but still counted in the outbreak as a case in the agency's May 13 outbreak report and in
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