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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Sunday that the general public should not be worried about the outbreak. “This is not another COVID. And the risk to the public is low. So they shouldn’t be scared, and they shouldn’t panic.”
The Hondius left the southern Argentine port of Ushuaia on April 1, and a Dutch passenger died on board on April 11. It wasn’t until early May that the World Health Organization said it was reacting to a suspected hantavirus outbreak as the ship neared the West African island nation of Cape Verde.
Hantavirus usually spreads from rodent droppings, but the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. Symptoms - which can include fever, chills and muscle aches - usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure.
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