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Health expands to six the contacts under surveillance for the hantavirus Andes case in a Franco-Argentine citizen.

The Ministry of Health currently has under control four more contacts of the Franco-Argentine citizen affected by hantavirus Andes. With these new cases, the total number of people considered close contacts rises to six, according to the latest report from the Coordination Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES). The...

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US vetoes direct return from DRC due to Ebola except after 21 days in a third country

United States authorities have communicated that U.S. citizens who are in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will not be able to return to the country on commercial flights if they have not previously remained for 21 days in a third state before boarding for their final destination, in the...

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo surpasses 300 deaths from Ebola and nears hospital collapse

The death toll from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has surpassed the threshold of 300 deaths, out of a total that already exceeds 1,150 confirmed cases. This new resurgence of the epidemic coincides with the warning from the African Union's public health agency, which has indicated that...

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Torres defends the handling of the Hondius case after the quarantine ends with no hantavirus cases in the Canary Islands

The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has defended the actions of the Government of Spain in the episode of the cruise ship 'Hondius', once the quarantine period for passengers was completed without any hantavirus infections being registered in the Canary Islands.The ministerial official spoke this...

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Health concludes management of hantavirus outbreak after finishing follow-ups with negative results

The Ministry of Health has "closed" the management of the hantavirus outbreak after verifying that all individuals who remained under observation have completed the established quarantine period and have obtained negative results in PCR tests, allowing them to return to their routines normally.The two individuals who tested positive during the...

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Gómez Ulla abandons all isolated for hantavirus except the confirmed case

All the people who were in quarantine as contacts at the Gómez Ulla Central Defense Hospital in Madrid have already left the health center and are at their homes or will arrive throughout this Sunday, where they will continue the isolation period set by public health authorities.This was communicated by...

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The contacts of the hantavirus outbreak from MV Hondius leave Gómez Ulla after testing negative

The twelve people who remained under surveillance as contacts of hantavirus cases linked to the ship MV Hondius have already left the Central Defense Hospital Gómez Ulla, in Madrid, after testing negative in the last PCR performed this Saturday. According to the Ministry of Health, all of them were asymptomatic and in good general condition. After being discharged, they have already...

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First Spanish case positive for hantavirus is discharged

The Ministry of Health has reported that the first Spanish patient who tested positive for hantavirus has been discharged and is now at home, after being hospitalized at the Central Defense Hospital Gómez Ulla since May 10th.According to Health, the 70-year-old affected individual has been able to return to his...

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Health will discharge for hantavirus after three days without symptoms and two negative PCRs in urine and exudate

The Ministry of Health has established that patients in Spain with a positive hantavirus diagnosis may leave the hospital once their clinical recovery has been confirmed. To do so, they must accumulate at least three days without signs compatible with the infection and have two negative results, or cycle thresholds...

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Australia extends until the end of June the quarantine of repatriates from the cruise ship with hantavirus

Australian health authorities announced this Thursday that they have decided to extend until the end of June the quarantine period imposed on the six passengers of the cruise ship affected by hantavirus who were repatriated to the country after the ship, the 'MV Hondius', disembarked on the Canary Island of...

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The two admitted for hantavirus at Gómez Ulla remain without symptoms

The Ministry of Health has reported that the two patients who tested positive for hantavirus, and who remain isolated at the Gómez Ulla Central Defense Hospital in Madrid, continue to show no symptoms.This Monday, a new infection was reported following the last PCR test performed on the 13 Spaniards who...

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A new positive case detected among those isolated at Gómez Ulla, who remains without symptoms

The Ministry of Health reported this Monday the detection of a new positive case of hantavirus after PCR tests carried out on Spaniards who remain in quarantine at the Gómez Ulla Central Defense Hospital.As reported by the department headed by Mónica García, the case corresponds to a "close contact" identified...

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Health reviews the hantavirus protocol and endorses supervised home quarantine from day 28

The Ministry of Health has reviewed the protocol for the hantavirus outbreak and has confirmed the option of supervised home quarantine at 28 days for people admitted to the Central Hospital of Defense Gómez Ulla in Madrid, provided that a positive PCR for this virus is not detected.This modification of...

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CSIF will monitor compliance with safety protocols during visits to people in quarantine

The delegate of the Independent and Civil Servants Trade Union (CSIF) at the Gómez Ulla Hospital in Madrid, José García, has stressed that the union will focus on ensuring the safety of the staff while the quarantine of Spaniards from the cruise ship 'NV Hondius' is maintained and, especially, on...

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Valencian Health sends the third PCR of the patient under observation in Alicante

The Ministry of Health of the Valencian Community sent on Monday night to the National Center for Microbiology the third sample obtained from the 32-year-old patient who remains under observation in an Alicante hospital due to suspected hantavirus, as reported this Tuesday morning by sources from this department of the...

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The WHO places the hantavirus quarantine from May 10 to June 21

The director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has established that the period to be considered for hantavirus quarantine should start on May 10 and extend until June 21."The recommendation we make is that there must be strict supervision at home or in a quarantine facility...

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Are Spaniards on board the MV Hondius obligated to quarantine? This is what the law says

The management of the arrival in the Canary Islands of the cruise ship MV Hondius, on which a hantavirus outbreak has been declared, has generated discrepancies even within the Spanish Government itself. And these have to do with the obligation, or not, for Spanish passengers (who are asymptomatic) to undergo...

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Quarantine

Health expands to six the contacts under surveillance for the hantavirus Andes case in a Franco-Argentine citizen.

US vetoes direct return from DRC due to Ebola except after 21 days in a third country

The Democratic Republic of the Congo surpasses 300 deaths from Ebola and nears hospital collapse

Torres defends the handling of the Hondius case after the quarantine ends with no hantavirus cases in the Canary Islands

Health concludes management of hantavirus outbreak after finishing follow-ups with negative results

Gómez Ulla abandons all isolated for hantavirus except the confirmed case

The contacts of the hantavirus outbreak from MV Hondius leave Gómez Ulla after testing negative

First Spanish case positive for hantavirus is discharged

Health will discharge for hantavirus after three days without symptoms and two negative PCRs in urine and exudate

Australia extends until the end of June the quarantine of repatriates from the cruise ship with hantavirus

The two admitted for hantavirus at Gómez Ulla remain without symptoms

A new positive case detected among those isolated at Gómez Ulla, who remains without symptoms

Health reviews the hantavirus protocol and endorses supervised home quarantine from day 28

CSIF will monitor compliance with safety protocols during visits to people in quarantine

Valencian Health sends the third PCR of the patient under observation in Alicante

The WHO places the hantavirus quarantine from May 10 to June 21

Are Spaniards on board the MV Hondius obligated to quarantine? This is what the law says

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