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  "description": "Health authorities have scrambled to trace dozens of people who recently sailed on the Dutch vessel MV Hondius.\n\n",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-07T17:24:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "GENEVA (AN) — World Health Organization officials said a hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship does not pose a pandemic-level threat, despite international contact tracing efforts following three deaths and multiple confirmed infections aboard the Dutch-flagged MV _Hondius_.\n\nHealth authorities are tracing passengers who disembarked before the outbreak was identified, as well as close contacts across several countries, after the cruise ship reported infections tied to the Andes strain of hantavirus — the only known hantavirus capable of limited person-to-person transmission.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "WHO says hantavirus cruise outbreak serious but not COVID-like",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-07T22:58:51.755Z"
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