
Lee C
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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


🦠 Tous les cas contacts étaient réunis dans un seul lieu : le bateau de croisière où il était facile de les observer. Et un petit génie a eu l’idée de les disperser aux quatre coins de la planète. Je ne suis pas infectiologue mais je suis perplexe.






Andes Hantavirus analysis: This chart suggests Cases 2-8 were all a single H-to-H jump from Case 1, since all of the incubation periods cluster at 22 days from Case 1 symptoms. We are now 13 days from the 'mean' date of symptoms from Cases 2-8. If there is to be a new generation of cases they should appear, on average, at about May 19 or 22 days from Gen 2. Strict protocol would support a 42-day quarantine from last contact or about June 21st for all exposed individuals.


BREAKING: One of the 17 American passengers evacuated from a cruise ship in the Canary Islands has tested positive for the hantavirus but is not showing any symptoms, U.S. health officials said. apnews.com/article/hantav…










