WSJ Patient fell ill with strain capable of human-to-human transmission after returning from cruise ship. Swiss officials are rushing to trace the contacts of a man who has been hospitalized in Zurich with a strain of the hantavirus that is capable of human-to-human transmission.
The patient became ill in Switzerland after returning from a trip to South America with his wife at the end of April, Switzerland’s Health Ministry said Wednesday. The man had traveled on the cruise ship where several cases of hantavirus, a disease typically carried by rodents, have killed at least three people, the ministry added.
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