{"id":47139,"date":"2026-05-05T13:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47139"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:24:40","slug":"who-confirms-2nd-hantavirus-case-on-dutch-cruise-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/who-confirms-2nd-hantavirus-case-on-dutch-cruise-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO confirms 2nd hantavirus case on Dutch cruise ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed a second case of hantavirus infection identified on a vessel in the Atlantic Ocean, bringing the total number of confirmed cases on board to two, Dutch cruise ship operator Oceanwide Expeditions said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The newly confirmed case was a Dutch female passenger who died on April 27, the operator said.<br \/>\nAbout 150 people remain on board following the deaths of a Dutch couple and a German national, as well as two crew members falling ill. Another confirmed hantavirus passenger, a British national, has left the vessel and is receiving intensive care in Johannesburg, South Africa, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two crew members on board continue to present acute respiratory symptoms, one mild and one severe. Both require urgent medical care,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;These crew members are of British and Dutch nationality. At this time, no other persons with symptoms have been identified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hantaviruses are a group of viruses carried by rodents that can cause severe disease in humans. Infection typically occurs through contact with infected rodents or their urine, droppings, or saliva, while human-to-human transmission is rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed a second case of hantavirus infection identified on a vessel in the Atlantic Ocean, bringing the total number of confirmed cases on board to two, Dutch cruise ship operator Oceanwide Expeditions said in a statement on Monday. The newly confirmed case was a Dutch female passenger who died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47141,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47139\/revisions\/47141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}