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Australia to fly citizens home from virus-hit cruise ship, plans quarantine

May 11, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: Australia will charter a flight to evacuate its citizens from a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak, with returning passengers quarantined on arrival, the government said on Monday. Eight people no longer on the MV Hondius have fallen ill, according to a World Health Organization tally from Friday, of which six are confirmed to have contracted the virus. Three have died, a Dutch couple and […]

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One US citizen tests mildly positive for hantavirus, another has mild symptoms

May 11, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Sunday that one of the 17 Americans being repatriated from a hantavirus-struck luxury cruise ship has tested mildly positive for the Andes strain of the virus while a second has mild symptoms. All the U.S. citizens are being airlifted to the United States, […]

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Two suspected hantavirus cases found in Spain, remote Tristan da Cunha

May 9, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: Health experts raced to contain a potential spread of hantavirus as two suspected cases emerged on Friday far from the luxury cruise liner where the outbreak started. The latest reports involved a man who fell ill after leaving the ship and a woman who became sick after sitting near an infected cruise passenger […]

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Five hantavirus infections detected on Atlantic cruise vessel; WHO issues low-risk assurance

May 8, 2026 revoi editor

Geneva [Switzerland]: The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed five instances of hantavirus linked to fatalities on a cruise vessel currently navigating the Atlantic Ocean. In addition to the confirmed cases, three further individuals are suspected of carrying the Andes strain of the virus. Despite the severity of the situation, the global health body maintains […]

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Hantavirus-hit cruise ship to head to Spain after permission granted to dock in Canary Islands

May 6, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: A luxury cruise ship that has been hit by an outbreak of the deadly hantavirus was preparing to travel from Cape Verde towards Europe on Wednesday after the Spanish government gave permission for it to dock in the Canary Islands. The Spanish Health Ministry said it had been asked by the World Health […]

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Human to human hantavirus transmission suspected on cruise but risk to public low, WHO says

May 5, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that it suspects some rare human to human transmission took place between close contacts on board a luxury cruise ship hit by seven confirmed or suspected hantavirus cases. A Dutch couple and a German national have died, while a British national was evacuated from the ship […]

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WHO says risk to public is low after suspected hantavirus outbreak hits ship

May 4, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: The World Health Organization said on Monday there was no need for panic and the risk to the public was low after three people died and three fell ill following a suspected outbreak of the rodent-borne hantaviruson a cruise shipin the Atlantic. Netherlands-based Oceanwide Expeditions said it was “managing a serious medical situation” […]

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov meets with WHO Director General Ghebreyesus in Rome

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COVID-19 pandemic may end soon: WHO

September 15, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: The number of fatalities caused by COVID-19 worldwide has decreased over the past week to the lowest level since March 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic may end in the near future, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing in Geneva on Wednesday. “Last week, the number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 […]

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India delivers six tons of medical assistance to Afghanistan

July 1, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: Unstable country at all stages – including its national politics Afghanistan has received a total of six tons of essential medicines from India. External Affairs (MEA) Ministry of India on Thursday said “India supplied the seventh batch of medical assistance to Afghanistan consisting of six tons of essential medicines as a part of its […]

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England: Health Agency Confirms Community Spread of Monkeypox in the Country

June 2, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: The United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on Wednesday confirmed that a Monkeypox diesis appears to be spreading from person to person in England. The current outbreak is the first time that the virus has been passed from person to person in England where travel links to an endemic country have not been identified. […]