Manitobans don\u2019t appear to be at risk of hantavirus, the chief provincial public health officer said Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a serious but isolated event,\u201d Dr. Brent Roussin said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how this evolves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several people on a cruise ship travelling to Spain\u2019s Canary Islands have contracted the virus; three passengers have died on board.<\/p>\n
The World Health Organization stressed there\u2019s a \u201clow\u201d risk of transmission to the general public, Thomson Reuters reported Thursday.<\/p>\n
Cruise passengers are expected to disembark Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis reminds us that we continue to see emerging infections over time, and we need to ensure we\u2019re taking precautions,\u201d Roussin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut at this point, no, I\u2019m not aware of any Manitobans (with cases), and\u2026 Manitoba is not going to be affected by this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manitobans don\u2019t appear to be at risk of hantavirus, the chief provincial public health officer said Thursday. \u201cThis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-655024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}