A French woman repatriated from a cruise ship struck by hantavirus was Tuesday in intensive care on a ventilator battling a severe case of the rare disease, a doctor said. The woman, one of five French passengers flown back from the MV Hondius and placed in isolation in Paris, started to feel very unwell on Sunday night and tested positive. FRANCE 24’s Antonia Kerrigan reports from Paris’s Bichat hospital.
I hope the woman in intensive care recovers, but this really makes me question the safety protocols on cruise ships like the MV Hondius.
The fact that 11 cases have already been reported and one is on a ventilator shows how serious hantavirus can be, even if it’s rare.
The ageing population is going to put unprecedented pressure on healthcare systems.
It’s good that the French authorities quickly repatriated and isolated the passengers from the MV Hondius, but I wonder if other passengers are being monitored adequately.
I didn’t realize hantavirus could be transmitted on a cruise ship; I thought it was mostly from rodent droppings in rural areas. This is concerning.
Vaccine development timelines have shrunk dramatically thanks to mRNA technology.
The connection between stress and physical illness is better understood but still ignored.
Traditional medicine has insights that Western medicine is slowly starting to validate.
Climate change is already having measurable effects on global disease patterns.