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French passenger from hantavirus ship tests positive: health minister
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- Twenty-two more French nationals had been identified as contact cases after being exposed to someone with the virus, Rist added.
- They included eight people who had travelled on an April 25 flight between Saint Helena and Johannesburg, and 14 more on a flight between Johannesburg and Amsterdam, she said.
- Three passengers from the MV Hondius — a Dutch couple and a German woman — have died, while others have fallen sick with the rare disease, which usually spreads among rodents.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize A French woman repatriated from a cruise ship struck by hantavirus has tested positive with the rare disease, France’s health minister said Monday, in the country’s first case since the outbreak.
The woman, one of five French passengers flown back from the MV Hondius and placed in isolation in Paris, started to feel very unwell on Sunday night and “tests came back positive”, Health Minister Stephanie Rist told the radio station France Inter.
Twenty-two more French nationals had been identified as contact cases after being exposed to someone with the virus, Rist added.
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