The situation of Spanish citizens affected or under surveillance for the hantavirus outbreak associated with the MV Hondius cruise ship remains marked by close monitoring by health authorities, although the latest official report reduces the main focus to one confirmed case in Spain and the preventive monitoring of other identified...
The third PCR test performed on the woman admitted in Alicante within the hantavirus surveillance protocol has yielded a negative result, according to health sources.The patient, who remains admitted preventively, ceases to be considered a suspected case and moves to the category of "contact", within the framework of the follow-up...
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has reported that, through its Emergency Task Force, it already has the necessary mechanisms to support the development and regulatory evaluation of vaccines and therapies targeting hantaviruses.Within its preparation tasks, the EMA has located and contacted the main drug developers, with special attention to antivirals,...
A 25-year-old Italian man has been hospitalized in Rome with hantavirus symptoms, after having shared a flight with a woman who later died from the disease, according to the Italian agency Ansa. The patient, originally from the Calabria region, in southern Italy, has been transferred to the Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas Lazzaro...
Starting at 13:00 hours, the press conference following the Council of Ministers is scheduled to take place. A meeting that began later than usual as the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, had an early meeting with the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom, to address the...
The situation of the Spanish passenger isolated after a first positive PCR for hantavirus has changed in the last few hours after he began to present symptoms, according to the update transmitted about his evolution within the health operation activated in Spain for the outbreak linked to the MV Hondius. Until...
The health monitoring for the hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius is no longer limited solely to passengers who traveled on the cruise ship. Health authorities in the United States are keeping five individuals under surveillance who were never on board the ship, but who may have been exposed...
The hantavirus outbreak detected on the cruise ship MV Hondius has forced the activation in Spain of a broad health device for monitoring, isolation, and epidemiological surveillance. The Ministry of Health is keeping under control several cases linked to the ship and to people who were in contact with affected...
Starting at 10:00 hours the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez and the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom, appear before the media at La Moncloa.Both meet once the evacuation operation of the passengers of the cruise ship 'MV Hondius' affected by a hantavirus outbreak that caused...
The outbreak of hantavirus detected aboard the MV Hondius has once again placed zoonoses —diseases that jump from animals to humans— at the center of international health debate. Although experts rule out, for now, any real parallelism with the COVID-19 pandemic and lower the risk of a similar global expansion,...
One of the 14 Spanish citizens repatriated from the ship MV Hondius and who remain in quarantine at the Madrid-based Hospital Gómez Ulla has tested positive provisionally for hantavirus PCR upon arrival. As reported by La Moncloa, the patient currently shows no symptoms and is in good general condition, despite...
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has praised Spain's management in the evacuation of the ship MV Hondius, assuring that "Spain has done it with class and as planned," and has highlighted the Government's leadership in coordinating the operation.He also thanked the role of the...
After the disembarkation of the last passengers, the ship MV Hondius left the port of Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife) this Monday bound for Rotterdam (Netherlands), where it is expected to arrive in approximately five days. The cruise ship, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, thus begins its final journey after the...
The cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by the hantavirus outbreak, will finally have to dock at the port of Granadilla de Abona, after remaining anchored since Sunday as a preventive measure to reduce health risks.In these days, the evacuated passengers have been transferred to land by means of boats, in...
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has avoided a head-on confrontation with the President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, although he has stressed that the statements of public officials must be based on "scientific issues" and that what "is superfluous" is for "people to...
The international operation deployed after the arrival of the MV Hondius in Tenerife has already led to the evacuated passengers being distributed among different countries, where health authorities maintain controls, quarantines, and medical monitoring to watch for possible infections related to the hantavirus outbreak detected on the cruise ship. The situation...
The hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship continues to add new cases under international surveillance. France has confirmed a new positive case among passengers repatriated from Tenerife after one of the five French citizens evacuated from the ship presented symptoms compatible with the disease during the flight...
The arrival of the MV Hondius in the Canary Islands after the outbreak of hantavirus detected on board caused a public clash between the Canary Government and the Ministry of Health in recent days. The differences appeared from the beginning of the operation and intensified after several statements by the...
The appearance of a new case of hantavirus in the United States has once again put the spotlight on the outbreak detected on the MV Hondius, the cruise ship investigated since early May by the World Health Organization (WHO). Although health organizations continue to insist that the risk to the...
The operation deployed in Tenerife to manage the evacuation of the MV Hondius has left one fatal victim among the members of the security device. A 62-year-old civil guard died this Sunday after suffering a heart attack while participating in the coordinated efforts at the port of Granadilla de Abona,...
The MV Hondius is scheduled to leave the Canary Islands for Rotterdam this Monday after Spain completed over the weekend the extensive international operation deployed following the hantavirus outbreak detected on board. The Ministry of Health anticipates that the cruise ship can set sail once the last pending repatriations are...
The Spanish Society of Preventive Medicine, Public Health and Healthcare Management (SEMPSPGS) and the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI) have called for calm in the face of hantavirus cases, underlining their confidence in the response capacity of the National Health System and demanding that the population receive "truthful, understandable,...
The five passengers have been placed in strict isolation and will undergo diagnostic tests and medical evaluation, while the international operation continues for the hantavirus outbreak detected on the ship. One of the French repatriated from the MV Hondius presents symptoms The international operation for the hantavirus outbreak of the MV...
The disembarkation of passengers from the MV Hondius in Tenerife has become this Sunday one of the largest coordinated health and logistical operations in Spain since the pandemic. Under a huge security deployment, medical teams, military personnel, and specialized staff have participated in an operation designed to evacuate dozens of passengers from...
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has made resilience a virtue. During his terms at the helm of Moncloa, he has faced a global pandemic, a volcanic eruption, and several wars that have altered the geopolitical landscape, among other issues. "We are focused on the urgent, but without losing...