
Lee C
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Marie-Claude Lacasse w/the Quebec Health Dept says a resident of the province who was possibly exposed to hantavirus is no longer required to isolate-- "the person is not presenting symptoms & their potential exposure to hantavirus is considered low risk" winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/…


The variation in quarantine protocols across countries is a serious issue. The most conservative approach is Spain, which is keeping contacts in mandatory quarantine at the Gómez Ulla Central Defense Hospital in Madrid for 42 days per Reuters. The United States is sending people to Nebraska's biocontainment unit first but it is not clear to me how long they will stay there for monitoring. #Hantavirus "The Spanish passengers will be kept in hospital for the full 42 days, while French passengers will be hospitalised for 72 hours then allowed home to self-isolate for a further 45 days, according to the respective governments." reuters.com/business/healt…


@MeghanMcCain Hi. It's a virus we know about that doesn't spread very easily but can cause outbreaks of a few dozen people. It's bad for those close contacts but highly unlikely to pose any threat to the general public. So no need to worry about this one.
















HHS through @ASPRgov and @CDCgov is supporting @StateDept in the repatriation of 17 American citizens from the MV Hondius cruise ship affected by the Andes variant of hantavirus. All 17 are currently en route via @StateDept airlift to the United States, with two of the passengers travelling in the plane's biocontainment units out of an abundance of caution. One passenger currently has mild symptoms and another passenger tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus. As of now, the airlift will transport passengers to the ASPR Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center (RESPTC) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska before taking the passenger with mild symptoms to a second RESPTC at its final destination. Upon arrival at each facility, each individual will undergo clinical assessment and receive appropriate care and support based on their condition.


Spoke to @AndyMacNews @livenowfox — this #Hantavirus outbreak is a canary in the coal mine. We got lucky this time that this started on a cruise ship— that is why it was detected this fast. The cases clustered together in time/space. The next time, we won’t be that lucky. A future importation of #AndesVirus to a big city could be more complicated. And there are other pathogens that fit this pattern around the world (long incubation, human-human transmission, vague early symptoms). Remember that Ebola virus had only had outbreaks of 500 or less until the big one in 2014 that spread in large dense cities causing over 28500 cases and over 11k deaths











