Spain Health Ministry: 1 of 14 Spanish passengers at Gómez Ulla tests positive for hantavirus

Per Spain Health Ministry (May 11, via Al Jazeera/Euronews/The Spanish Eye): A Spanish passenger currently in isolation at a hospital in Madrid has tested positive for hantavirus after a preliminary test, and is currently asymptomatic, and the final results will be confirmed in the coming hours. The man, one of 14 Spanish passengers evacuated from MV Hondius to the Gomez Ulla military hospital in Madrid on May 10, was PCR-tested on arrival; the other 13 Spanish evacuees tested provisionally negative. All 14 remain in a 42-day quarantine at Gomez Ulla. This is Spain's first national hantavirus case in the MV Hondius cluster.

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Al Jazeera (Spain Health Ministry quoted)

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hantavirus