The World Health Organization said on Friday that the risk to the public from the deadly strain of hantavirus detected on the Dutch cruise ship is minimal, as the virus is transmitted only through “very close contact.”
“This is a dangerous virus, but only for the person who is actually infected, and the risk to the general population remains absolutely low,” WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier told a press briefing in Geneva.
He added that even people who had stayed in the same cabins aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius “do not appear to have been infected.”
Source: CNA
