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2 days ago
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3 evacuees from hantavirus-hit cruise ship test positive or show symptoms as passengers return home | CBC

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5 days ago

Ontarians have little to no risk for hantavirus: province's chief medical officer | CBC News

Two Ontario residents exposed to hantavirus on a cruise remain asymptomatic and are monitored for 45 days with minimal public risk.
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fromwww.npr.org
5 days ago

Contact tracing could be key in halting the spread of hantavirus. Here's how it works

Contact tracing identifies and monitors close contacts of infected people to prevent hantavirus transmission before symptoms appear.
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fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
12 hours ago

Europe on alert as experts 'cannot be certain' hantavirus 'has mutated' - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

European and US health authorities are investigating a widening hantavirus outbreak linked to MV Hondius passengers, with ongoing testing, contact tracing, and uncertainty about viral mutation.
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fromwww.cbc.ca
2 days ago

3 evacuees from hantavirus-hit cruise ship test positive or show symptoms as passengers return home | CBC

Repatriated cruise passengers tested positive for hantavirus, while WHO says wider spread risk remains low and person-to-person transmission is rare.
Coronavirus
fromWIRED
3 days ago

Could Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus? Not Really

Authorities must trace hantavirus contacts person-by-person from the source; app-based contact tracing is not accurate enough for small outbreaks.
Coronavirus
fromIrish Independent
4 days ago

New suspected hantavirus cases detected as two Irish passengers 'safe and well'

Authorities trace passengers who left a cruise before symptoms were detected, while health agencies report low general-population risk and uncommon human-to-human transmission.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
5 days ago

Ontarians have little to no risk for hantavirus: province's chief medical officer | CBC News

Two Ontario residents exposed to hantavirus on a cruise remain asymptomatic and are monitored for 45 days with minimal public risk.
Coronavirus
fromwww.npr.org
5 days ago

Contact tracing could be key in halting the spread of hantavirus. Here's how it works

Contact tracing identifies and monitors close contacts of infected people to prevent hantavirus transmission before symptoms appear.
Europe news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Monday briefing: Will the international effort to stop the further spread of hantavirus be successful?

A rare lethal hantavirus outbreak on a luxury cruise ship has prompted global track-and-trace efforts after multiple international passengers disembarked.
Coronavirus
fromIrish Independent
5 days ago

New hantavirus case suspected on remote island; plans being made for Irish citizens to self-isolate after leaving cruise ship

Authorities trace passengers who left a cruise ship before detection, as three deaths and eight suspected infections are reported.
fromwww.npr.org
6 days ago

About 40 passengers previously left ship hit by Hantavirus at island of St. Helena

About 40 passengers on a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak previously disembarked on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena after the first passenger died, Dutch officials said Thursday. The dozens of passengers, including the wife of a Dutch man who died, left the cruise ship during a stop at the British territory, the Dutch foreign ministry said.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Desperate parents calling pharmacies for meningitis jab as stocks run low

A meningitis outbreak in Kent has killed two people and sickened 13, triggering urgent vaccine demand that has depleted pharmacy stocks across the region.
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fromABC7 San Francisco
2 months ago

California measles outbreaks linked to pockets of unvaccinated residents

California health departments must identify and quarantine measles contacts within 72 hours, as measles is extremely contagious with nine of ten unvaccinated people contracting it from one infected person.
fromSFGATE
2 months ago

Over 200 cases of latent TB reported at SF high school

The San Francisco Department of Public Health said in a news release that among the 1,261 students and staff at the high school, 219 people, or about 17%, tested positive for TB. Subsequently, 204 of those people had confirmed cases of latent TB. The number is a major increase from the 50 latent cases detected by the end of January as testing was ramping up among the school's students and staff.
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Public health
fromABC7 San Francisco
3 months ago

Tuberculosis outbreak at San Francisco high school halts in-person classes

A tuberculosis outbreak at Archbishop Riordan High School prompted class cancellations, testing, and hybrid learning after three active cases and 50 latent infections were identified.
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