{"id":439065,"date":"2026-05-13T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/439065\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:56:07","slug":"uncertainty-over-hantavirus-spread-complicates-global-response-to-cruise-ship-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/439065\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncertainty over hantavirus spread complicates global response to cruise ship outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are being repatriated under a patchwork of measures that reflect uncertainty over how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2026\/05\/12\/world\/science-health\/hantavirus-covid-19-explainer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this strain of hantavirus<\/a> spreads, complicating efforts to contain the deadly outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Some passengers are being placed in biocontainment units, notably in France, for at least two weeks. Australia plans to quarantine passengers in a purpose-built facility outside Perth. But in the Netherlands, most are being asked to self-isolate for six weeks, with short outdoor walks permitted under masking and distancing rules.<\/p>\n<p>The divergent responses come as health officials stress that the risk to the broader public remains low and that hantavirus doesn\u2019t spread between people as easily as COVID-19. But exactly how contagious the Andes strain is across a crowded room, for instance, and whether people are infectious before developing symptoms, remains unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are being repatriated under a patchwork of measures that reflect uncertainty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1130,41953,35731,163,85,46,4663],"class_list":["post-439065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-covid-19","tag-cruise-ships","tag-hantavirus","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}