>A 32-year-old woman in the southeastern Spanish province of Alicante has symptoms consistent with a hantavirus infection and is being tested, Spanish health officials said on Friday.
>The woman was a passenger on the same flight as a patient who died in Johannesburg after travelling on the MV Hondius cruise ship and contracting the virus, Secretary of State for Health Javier Padilla told reporters
>Authorities have identified the Andes strain of hantavirus on the ship, a version that can spread from human to human in rare cases, typically only after close contact.
>The woman has “mild respiratory symptoms” and is being transferred to a hospital in the city of Alicante where she will be tested for the virus, with results expected 24 to 48 hours later, according to a statement on the regional health department’s website.
>Padilla said the woman, a resident of Alicante in the Valencia region, was sitting two rows behind the cruise ship passenger, but the contact between them “was brief” since the passenger had only been “on board for a short time” during the flight.
>Padilla added that Valencia’s regional health authorities were tracing the people the woman has been in contact with over the past few days.
Twisbi on
So this virus has a high mortality rate but can also incubate and spread for 8 weeks? That doesn’t sound like something that will burn itself out quickly.
If the incubation period is two months, why is she showing “symptoms” so soon? She is just coughing after a flight. It ain’t hanta.
windingsand on
Just when I thought we were in the clear when the flight attendant tested negative
maybemyfirstrodeo on
Genuine question, given this has a much higher mortality rate, would it be much less likely to be widespread than COVID?
No_Conversation_9325 on
Suspected! Let’s wait till test are done.
S0k0n0mi on
Execute and incinerate a 3 mile radius.
Its the only way.
DepartmentNatural on
Might be time to stock up on toilet paper from Costco, again
kezow on
Can we just not? We learned nothing from COVID and in fact took actions that will cause the next outbreak to be much worse. So can we just not?
SilverFox6 on
Suspected. Wait until the test results are in before drawing conclusions. The flight attendant was tested negative as well.
BornSuicidal on
Heck yes let’s all mask up
_gastly on
Plague Inc gameplay
flyingtiger188 on
How much toilet paper should we be stocking up on right now?
Effective_Ad_5371 on
Epstein, Trump, Hantavirus Oh My!
RoCKSLAM on
I swear at this point the media is so starved of anything virus related that they would report on somebody sneezing in east Asia with DEADLY VIRUS SYMPTOM IN MOST POPULATED REGION, PANIC
Crazy-Capital3769 on
This is the new pandemic…We didnt even recover from Covid. Good luck everybody
superseven27 on
On the one hand I wish almost nobody to have Hanta…on the other handnI wanna work from home again
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>A 32-year-old woman in the southeastern Spanish province of Alicante has symptoms consistent with a hantavirus infection and is being tested, Spanish health officials said on Friday.
>The woman was a passenger on the same flight as a patient who died in Johannesburg after travelling on the MV Hondius cruise ship and contracting the virus, Secretary of State for Health Javier Padilla told reporters
>Authorities have identified the Andes strain of hantavirus on the ship, a version that can spread from human to human in rare cases, typically only after close contact.
>The woman has “mild respiratory symptoms” and is being transferred to a hospital in the city of Alicante where she will be tested for the virus, with results expected 24 to 48 hours later, according to a statement on the regional health department’s website.
>Padilla said the woman, a resident of Alicante in the Valencia region, was sitting two rows behind the cruise ship passenger, but the contact between them “was brief” since the passenger had only been “on board for a short time” during the flight.
>Padilla added that Valencia’s regional health authorities were tracing the people the woman has been in contact with over the past few days.
So this virus has a high mortality rate but can also incubate and spread for 8 weeks? That doesn’t sound like something that will burn itself out quickly.
it was symptoms like coughing. the flight attendant who was quarantined for symptoms consistent with hantavirus [has tested negative for the virus](https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/klm-flight-attendant-tested-negative-hantavirus-infection-who-says-2026-05-08/)
If the incubation period is two months, why is she showing “symptoms” so soon? She is just coughing after a flight. It ain’t hanta.
Just when I thought we were in the clear when the flight attendant tested negative
Genuine question, given this has a much higher mortality rate, would it be much less likely to be widespread than COVID?
Suspected! Let’s wait till test are done.
Execute and incinerate a 3 mile radius.
Its the only way.
Might be time to stock up on toilet paper from Costco, again
Can we just not? We learned nothing from COVID and in fact took actions that will cause the next outbreak to be much worse. So can we just not?
Suspected. Wait until the test results are in before drawing conclusions. The flight attendant was tested negative as well.
Heck yes let’s all mask up
Plague Inc gameplay
How much toilet paper should we be stocking up on right now?
Epstein, Trump, Hantavirus Oh My!
I swear at this point the media is so starved of anything virus related that they would report on somebody sneezing in east Asia with DEADLY VIRUS SYMPTOM IN MOST POPULATED REGION, PANIC
This is the new pandemic…We didnt even recover from Covid. Good luck everybody
On the one hand I wish almost nobody to have Hanta…on the other handnI wanna work from home again