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Hantavirus: Testing ‘well under way’ for cruise Britons isolating at UK hospital

Arrowe Park Hospital, where tests are well underway for passengers from a cruise ship hit by deadly hantavirus (PA) - (PA Archive)

Clinical assessments and testing are “well under way” for passengers from the cruise ship hit by deadly hantavirus who are isolating at a UK hospital, health bosses have said.

Twenty British nationals from the MV Hondius, together with a German who is a UK resident and a Japanese passenger, were taken to Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral on Sunday after the ship docked in Tenerife.

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