Tenerife to receive cruise ship after hantavirus scare; passengers to disembark

Passengers on a monitored KLM flight were cleared of immediate risk after a Dutch flight attendant tested negative for hantavirus, as a cruise ship heads to Tenerife where 84 passengers will disembark.

Hantavirus is mainly rodent-borne; only the Andes strain spreads person to person. With incubation up to eight weeks and a fatality rate near 30%, monitoring continues, though WHO says pandemic risk is very low. Dutch and Spanish hospitals are prepared amid scrutiny of the operator’s initial response.

Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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