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Two new suspected hantavirus cases have been found in Spain and on the remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha.
The announcements were made on Friday in locations thousands of miles apart, which will fuel concern about a cluster of cases so far associated with three deaths. Though the World Health Organisation (WHO) has repeatedly said the risk to the wider public is low and the virus does not transmit easily.
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 authorities said.
Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla, told reporters that the woman was briefly sitting on a plane behind a Dutch woman who had contracted the virus on the MV Hondius. The Dutch woman left the flight in Johannesburg feeling ill before it took off on April 25 and later died in the hospital.
A British man was also suspected of having the disease on Tristan da Cunha, the UK Health Security Agency said. Officials there said he was a passenger on the Dutch-flagged ship, which stopped at the island from April 13 to 15.
Anais Legand, WHO technical officer for viral threats, said in an online briefing, “Based on the dynamics of this outbreak, based on how it is spreading and not spreading amongst the people on the ship, the people who have disembarked, as well, we continue to consider the risk as low for the general population,”
Officials said both new suspected cases are connected to the original cluster.
