WHO: Absolutely low risk of spreading the pandemic virus to the world population

WHO: The hazard of hantavirus spreading to the planetary colonisation is highly low

The outbreak occurred aboard the cruise vessel MV Hondius, wherever 3 passengers mislaid their lives.

The hazard of hantavirus spreading to the planetary colonisation is “extremely low,” the World Health Organization (WHO) reassured today, pursuing an outbreak aboard the cruise vessel MV Hondius that resulted successful the deaths of 3 passengers.

“This is simply a unsafe virus, but lone for the idiosyncratic who is really infected. The hazard for the wide colonisation remains highly low,” WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier told journalists successful Geneva.

He stressed that adjacent among radical sharing cabins with an infected idiosyncratic aboard the MV Hondius, “it appears that successful immoderate cases, neither of the 2 became infected.”

“It’s not thing similar measles, for example: if you are present successful the property country and idiosyncratic successful beforehand coughs, the archetypal rows would beryllium astatine risk. Close interaction practically means nose-to-nose (…) This is not a caller COVID,” helium underlined.

The cruise vessel Hondius, owned by the Dutch cruise institution Oceanwide Expeditions, departed from Ushuaia connected April 1 and is presently en way to Tenerife successful the Canary Islands, wherever it is expected to get connected Sunday.

Three passengers aboard the vessel person died, portion the latest WHO figures published connected Thursday reported a full of 5 confirmed cases and 3 suspected cases.