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'This is not coronavirus,' WHO says about hantavirus outbreak
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0:21Now PlayingMaria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization's director of epidemic and pandemic management, said that the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship "is not the start of a COVID pandemic."
Countries worldwide are trying to prevent further spread of the hantavirus by tracking those who had already disembarked the ship in St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean before the virus was detected and anyone in close contact with them since.
In total, five people are confirmed to have contracted the virus, with another three suspected cases, the WHO said. Hantavirus is usually spread by rodents but in rare cases can be transmitted person-to-person.
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