{"id":11933,"date":"2026-05-06T14:44:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11933"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:44:55","slug":"hantavirus-case-in-switzerland-spurs-race-to-trace-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/05\/06\/hantavirus-case-in-switzerland-spurs-race-to-trace-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hantavirus Case in Switzerland Spurs Race to Trace Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/asia\/hantavirus-case-in-switzerland-spurs-race-to-trace-contacts-60f21548\">WSJ<\/a> 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patient became ill in Switzerland after returning from a trip to South America with his wife at the end of April, Switzerland\u2019s Health Ministry said Wednesday. The man had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/three-people-dead-in-suspected-hantavirus-outbreak-on-cruise-ship-d3777a4f?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"traveled on the cruise ship, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">traveled on the cruise ship<\/a>&nbsp;where several cases of hantavirus, a disease typically carried by rodents, have killed at least three people, the ministry added.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&nbsp; The patient became ill in Switzerland after returning from a trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-hantavirus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11934,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions\/11934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}