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Second hantavirus case confirmed after three die in suspected cruise ship outbreak | BBC News


Two cases of hantavirus have been confirmed after three people died and a UK national was left seriously ill following a suspected outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

The operator of the MV Hondius ship, Oceanwide Expeditions, said a Dutch husband and wife, as well as a German national, had died.

Hantavirus has been confirmed in the case of the 69-year-old UK national who is in intensive care in a hospital in South Africa, and was present in the Dutch woman who died. The causes of the deaths of the other passengers are being investigated.

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