News · 27 May 2026
Brit with hantavirus returns home from Netherlands
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The public's wider risk from this hantavirus case stays very low, health officials confirmed. An individual of British nationality, who had been hospitalised in the Netherlands, has since been transferred to England and is presently adhering to rigorous infection prevention protocols. WHO identified this case May 7; it links to an MV Hondius outbreak with 11 reported cases and three deaths.
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