So, it wasn’t 23 people who got off the boat at St Helens, it was more than 30. Those 30 have dispersed around the globe, so fun! Thankfully, #Andean hantavirus, while still deadly, and while transmissible from human to human, is not an easy spread like flu or covid. So, this is not a lock it all down event, as far as we know from information available.

A #KLM flight attendant who was on a plane with some of the sick passengers is currently in hospital with mild symptoms, but no test result. A #Swiss man is in hospital. Two people in the US #Georgia are quarantined, two in the #UK quarantined, and some folks are floating around #Texas somewhere and they don’t know where everyone else is yet.

Two links: Dutch paper and CNN

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(nltimes.nl)

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/world/hantavirus-ship-tenerife-outbreak-intl