Hantavirus in South Africa
Outbreak status and case-level data for the MV Hondius hantavirus cluster.
Current status
Active monitoring — confirmed or suspected cases under investigation.
TREATMENT SITE — not a community outbreak country. Hosts MVH-002 (Dutch Woman, 69, Index Wife, deceased after deplaning at OR Tambo with symptoms en route Johannesburg → Amsterdam) and MVH-006 (Dutch National, 41, Crew, confirmed, hospitalized in Cape Town). Both were Dutch nationals receiving emergency medical care. No locally-acquired cases; no community transmission detected. country_stats.cases excludes imported visitors hospitalized purely for treatment; the deceased death is still counted in cases.status=deceased aggregation, which is what snapshots.total_deaths pulls from.
Cases currently in South Africa
Cases linked to exposure in South Africa
Patients exposed in South Africa but currently elsewhere.
- NJ-002 · now in USNew Jersey Resident #2
- FR-001 · now in FRFrench National (Benign Symptoms)
- NJ-001 · now in USNew Jersey Resident #1
- IT-KLM-GROUP · now in IT3 Italians (KL592 cohort: Campania + Tuscany + Veneto-cleared)
- IT-CAL-001 · now in ITItalian Sailor, 25 (KL592 contact, NEGATIVE PCR)
- US-WA-FLIGHT · now in US2 King County Residents (KL592 flight-near-contacts)
- KL-001 · now in NLKLM Flight Attendant (Monitoring)
- CA-001 · now in CACanadian (Flight Contact)
View South Africa on the live dashboard →
For the broader outbreak see the main tracker. For disease background see /hantavirus.