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My friend that was onboard the KLM flight from Johannesburg and who was yesterday taken to hospital for tests, has now been placed in a 2 week quarantine in order to be monitored. I’m not sure if he has his results back, but yes - authorities aren’t playing around.

NOW - WHO's Tedros says that he "expects more cases" of Hantavirus to be announced, due to the gap between the first case and when the virus was identified, as the passengers were interacting on the ship during this time.

Scientists are now urging the WHO to treat Andes hantavirus as potentially airborne by default, warning the world not to repeat past mistakes.

[ 🇫🇷 FRANCE | 🦠 HANTAVIRUS ] 🔸 La directrice de l’Institut Pasteur, Yasmine Belkaid, affirme que le virus détecté est similaire au virus des Andes et « n’a pas muté », tandis que certains experts, comme le Pr Xavier Lescure, jugent qu’un variant reste possible. Le docteur américain Ashish Jha indique de son côté que certains passagers auraient été infectés sans contact prolongé, ce qui suggère une transmission potentiellement plus facile que prévu, selon un article de NBC News. De son côté, l’infectiologue français Xavier Lescure estime que la transmission de l’hantavirus entre humains reste peu efficace et nécessite des contacts rapprochés et prolongés.