A KLM flight attendant in Amsterdam is being tested for hantavirus after developing mild symptoms. The concern follows a Dutch woman who was removed from a KLM flight from Johannesburg and later died of the virus in South Africa. Health authorities are reaching out to other passengers to assess exposure and take precautionary steps.
An air ambulance carrying a passenger believed infected after a hantavirus hit a cruise ship landed in Amsterdam following an emergency evacuation off the Cape Verde coast. The patient is reported to be in stable condition and was taken to the Netherlands for treatment, days after two other evacuees arrived late Wednesday.
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