Overview
- France said 26 identified contacts tied to the MV Hundius cluster tested negative and remain in hospital isolation.
- Dutch authorities reported that evacuees who reached the Netherlands after routes via Saint Helena and Johannesburg tested negative, including contacts of a Dutch passenger who was taken off a flight and later died in South Africa.
- French doctors confirmed a fifth French passenger tested positive for hantavirus and is in serious condition at a French hospital.
- Official counts list three deaths and six confirmed infections worldwide, with one possible case and a U.S. passenger who developed symptoms but later tested negative.
- Hantaviruses spread to people from rodents and outbreaks are rare, which helps explain the broad cross-border testing and isolation.