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Dr. Stephen Kornfeld, a passenger from the MV Hondius who had tested “faintly positive” for hantavirus, has now tested negative and been moved out of a Nebraska biocontainment unit.
A vacationing doctor who stepped in to treat hantavirus patients on the MV Hondius after the ship’s chief medic fell ill is isolating inside a biocontainment unit after also contracting the virus. Retired oncologist Stephen Kornfeld was put in isolation after landing in Omaha,
The Australians and New Zealander who were on board a cruise ship exposed to the deadly hantavirus are set to land on Australian soil on Friday.
Ontario County is investigating a suspected hantavirus case in Hopewell, New York, but says there is no public risk.
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4 Californians exposed to Hantavirus being monitored by officials after 3 exposed on MV Hondius
Four Californians exposed to the deadly Hantavirus outbreak linked to a Dutch cruise ship are being monitored by health officials — including one Bay Area resident who was aboard the vessel before the illness was detected.
San Francisco Bay Area health officials provided an update on a resident who was exposed to the hantavirus during a cruise in the Atlantic, adding that the risk to the public remains low.
The MV Hondius was the epicenter of the first-ever deadly outbreak of hantavirus aboard a modern cruise ship. Was this a freak occurrence, or a sign of things to come?
It's possible the fact sheet was written before human-to-human transmission of hantavirus was first documented in one strain of hantavirus.