Investigators are treating the Hondius cluster less like a panic story than a long-incubation contact-tracing problem: 11 cases, three deaths, no cases beyond passengers so far, and the Andes strain’s rare person-to-person spread keeping exposed contacts under watch.

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1. Hantavirus outbreak grows to 11 cases, 9 confirmed — CIDRAP

   Hantavirus outbreak grows to 11 cases, 9 confirmed | CIDRAP # Hantavirus outbreak grows to 11 cases, 9 confirmed News brief Topics Share Copied to clipboard AcfiPress Noticias Canarias, CC BY 4.0/Wikimedia Commons A Spanish passenger on the MV Hondius cruise ship who was in quarantine at a military hospital in Madrid is now confirmed to have hantavirus, raising the outbreak total to 11 cases,…

2. Step Back — What makes the Andes strain different from the hantaviruses people may have heard about in the U.S.—especially its rare person-to-person spread—and what does that actually mean for passengers, crew, and contacts being traced after the MV Hondius cluster?Background sources
   • Questions and answers on the hantavirus outbreak in a cruise ship — Europa
   • Hantavirus cluster linked to cruise ship travel, Multi-country — Who
   • What doctors know about how the Andes hantavirus spreads | CNN — Brenda Goodman
   • How easily does the Andes hantavirus spread? What to know after cruise ship outbreak — Nbcnews
   • Andes virus on the MV Hondius cruise ship: what we know about this rare and potentially fatal hantavirus | — Pasteur

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