12 Radboud Staff (Quarantine)

Radboud University Medical Center's public statement classifies the 12 staff as 'high-risk contacts' after international consultation. Eight are at home in quarantine; four are housed in a separate location for the 6-week incubation window. The hospital described the lapse as 'an unfortunate combination of circumstances' - the most up-to-date international hantavirus protocol had not yet been distributed to staff at the time of the blood-handling (Thursday May 7) and urine-disposal (Saturday May 9) incidents. Updated body-fluid handling procedures now apply across the hospital. No staff infections have been reported as of May 13; Radboudumc says there is no transmission risk to other patients, visitors, or scheduled care

• radboudumc.nl
• dutchnews.nl
• irishtimes.com

[Created 2026-05-11] Cohort of 12 Radboud University Hospital (Nijmegen, Netherlands) staff placed in preventative quarantine for 6 weeks starting May 11 2026 after procedural errors during the treatment of MVH-006 (Dutch crew member 41, confirmed ANDV-positive, admitted to Radboudumc Nijmegen May 7). Per Radboud University Hospital statement quoted via RTE: 'Due to these circumstances, twelve employees are going into preventive quarantine for six weeks as a precaution, even though the risk of infection is low'. Hospital identified procedural errors in taking blood samples and disposing of patient urine. This is the first hospital-acquired secondary exposure cohort in the MV Hondius outbreak

monitoring; all 12 currently asymptomatic

per project anonymization conventions, no real names; cohort treated as group-level case

• rte.ie
• aljazeera.com
• dutchnews.nl