The WHO scrambled to reassure the world that the outbreak was not a repeat of the Covid pandemic, stressing that the contagion was very rare.<\/p>\n
The ship docked in Rotterdam harbour in the Netherlands last week, with the skeleton crew facing weeks of quarantine.<\/p>\n
Everyone still on board is asymptomatic, according to Oceanwide Expeditions, and being closely monitored by two medics.<\/p>\n
Hantavirus has been confirmed in seven patients, with one other probable case, according to an AFP tally from official sources.<\/p>\n
The virus typically spreads from the urine, faeces and saliva of infected rodents and is endemic in Argentina, where the voyage began.<\/p>\n
Those infected have the Andes strain \u2013 the only strain of hantavirus that can spread between people.<\/p>\n
The ship set off April 1 from Ushuaia, Argentina, taking in remote islands in the South Atlantic Ocean before steaming north to Cape Verde, then Spain\u2019s Canary Islands.<\/p>\n
Officials in Argentina\u2019s Tierra del Fuego province have downplayed the likelihood that the first victim in the outbreak became infected in Ushuaia.<\/p>\n
The province has not had a case of hantavirus since its reporting became mandatory 30 years ago.<\/p>\n
The Andes strain is however present in other Argentine provinces more than 1000km away in the north.<\/p>\n
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