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Health
Jane Kirby

Hantavirus: Some passengers on board cruise were ‘facing mental breakdown’

A plane at Manchester Airport carrying passengers that have been repatriated to the UK from cruise ship MV Hondius, which was hit by hantavirus (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Wire)

Some passengers on a cruise ship hit by deadly hantavirus were “facing mental breakdown”, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press briefing it would have been “inhumane” to leave people on board the ship rather than letting it dock in Tenerife, from where people were repatriated to their home countries.

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