{"id":676742,"date":"2026-05-17T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676742\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:05:20","slug":"hantavirus-update-australians-and-new-zealand-citizen-learn-results-of-virus-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676742\/","title":{"rendered":"Hantavirus update: Australians and New Zealand citizen learn results of virus test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six people stuck in a Perth<\/a> quarantine centre after a deadly hantavirus<\/a> outbreak on their cruise<\/a> ship have discovered they’re not infected.<\/p>\n

The four Australian citizens, one permanent resident and a New Zealand national quarantining for three weeks in Western Australia’s Bullsbrook Centre for National Resilience received their blood test results today.<\/p>\n

The federal Health Department confirmed they were well and would only be retested if they developed symptoms.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/The group of six were among the last to be repatriated from the MV Hondius and included four Australian citizens, one permanent resident, and one New Zealander.\ufeff (Colin Murty)<\/p>\n

The passengers were exposed to the Andes strain of the virus when a couple boarded their cruise after visiting parts of Argentina and Chile, which are home to a rat species that carries the disease.<\/p>\n

The federal government said the health and safety of the community and the wellbeing of the cruise passengers remained its priority.<\/p>\n

Canada today recorded its first case of the virus. One of the four Canadians on board the ship was diagnosed after developing mild symptoms.<\/p>\n

Local authorities said the group had not come into contact with the public, and the infected patient was in a stable condition.<\/p>\n

Three people died after contracting Hantavirus on the MV Hondius luxury cruise ship, sparking a global effort to evacuate and quarantine dozens of passengers and crew.<\/p>\n

Rats carry hantavirus, but the World Health Organisation said it believed the Andes strain was capable of human-to-human transmission.<\/p>\n

It was the first case of a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, according to Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler previously said the \ufeffgovernment was taking a precautionary approach, emphasising that human-to-human transmission of the virus was extremely rare.<\/p>\n

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