The Spanish Ministry of Health announced that a Spanish citizen, who was quarantined after being evacuated from the cruise ship "MV Hondius", tested positive for hantavirus.
Modern.az reports with reference to foreign media that the patient will be kept under specialized medical supervision.
On the evening of May 11, the ship "MV Hondius" departed from Tenerife, Canary Islands, for the Netherlands. On May 22, WHO reported 12 hantavirus patients on board. Three people died from the disease, and one patient was hospitalized in Johannesburg.
Hantaviruses are a family of viruses that primarily infect small mammals but can also be transmitted to humans. In severe cases, infected individuals experience lung damage, heart failure, and hemorrhagic fever.
