States Reporting Potential Hantavirus Exposure Grows to 16
NBC News
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Sixteen states are reporting potential hantavirus exposures, including Minnesota, Kansas and Washington state.
Health officials say most of the cases involve people who left the cruise ship at the center of an outbreak before it was identified or others who traveled with exposed passengers.
They say all are asymptomatic and isolating at home.
NBC’s Maggie Vespa reports for TODAY.
Hantavirus outbreak reaches Canada
- Potential cruise ship hantavirus carriers 'are ALREADY spread around the world': 40 passengers from countries including US, UK and Australia left the vessel before scale of crisis was known Daily Mail —
- Countries scramble to track passengers of virus-hit cruise ship CTV News —
- Netherlands Tests Flight Attendant for Hantavirus as Officials Track Cruise Ship Outbreak The New York Times —
- Hantavirus cruise death toll rises to five after eight confirmed infections: WHO Washington Examiner —
- WHO confirms five Hantavirus cases linked to cruise ship outbreak Punch —