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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Ella Pickover

Little risk of onward hantavirus transmission as variant identified – expert

The MV Hondius Dutch cruise ship is anchored in the Atlantic off Cape Verde (AP) - (AP)

The risk of hantavirus spreading from the outbreak linked to a cruise ship is “essentially zero”, a top expert has said.

Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford, said that the virus is “rarely” spread between people.

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