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Three people to be evacuated from cruise ship amid deadly hantavirus outbreak

Cape Verde's health ministry said three clinically stable passengers will be evacuated from cruise ship MV Hondius after a hantavirus outbreak killed three people. Two air ambulances will assist the evacuation. The WHO said human-to-human transmission may have occurred between close contacts, though the virus poses low public health risk and does not spread like flu or COVID.

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