The World Health Organization said on Saturday it considers everyone on board a cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak as "high-risk" contacts who should be actively monitored for 42 days.
"We classify everybody on board as what we call a high-risk contact," WHO's epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention director Maria Van Kerkhove told a social media event, adding that "active monitoring and follow-up of all the passengers and crew who disembark for a 42-day period" was recommended.
She stressed that the risk to the general public and to the people of the Canary Islands, where the MV Hondius is expected to anchor on Sunday, remained "low".
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SOURCE:AFP
