Expert: Little risk of hantavirus outbreak as variant identified

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2026-05-06

London (PA Media/dpa) - The risk of hantavirus spreading from the outbreak linked to a cruise ship is "essentially zero," a top expert said on Wednesday. Professor Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford, said that the virus is "rarely" spread between people. The Andes virus, which has been identified as the variant behind the outbreak, is "known very rarely to spread between people with close contact," Po......

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