A French woman repatriated from a cruise ship struck by hantavirus has tested positive for the rare disease, France’s health minister said Monday.
The woman, one of five French passengers flown back from the ship MV Hondius and placed in isolation in Paris, started to feel very unwell on Sunday night and “tests came back positive”, Health Minister Stephanie Rist told the France Inter radio broadcaster.
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Twenty-two more French nationals had been identified as contact cases after being exposed to someone with the virus, Rist added. They included eight people who had travelled on an April 25 flight between Saint Helena and Johannesburg, and 14 more on a flight between Johannesburg and Amsterdam, she said.
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