WHO Suspects Rare Person-to-Person Spread in Cruise Ship Virus Outbreak
The World Health Organization says some rare human-to-human transmission may have occurred among close contacts aboard the Dutch cruise ship stranded off Cape Verde after a hantavirus outbreak left three people dead and several others ill. Health officials believe the first infections may have happened before boarding in Argentina or during island excursions, while testing continues to confirm whether the Andes strain, one of the few hantaviruses known to spread between…
