{"id":11992,"date":"2026-05-13T19:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11992"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:19:27","slug":"french-hantavirus-patient-is-critically-ill-as-outbreak-reaches-11-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/05\/13\/french-hantavirus-patient-is-critically-ill-as-outbreak-reaches-11-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"French Hantavirus Patient Is Critically Ill as Outbreak Reaches 11 Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p id=\"article-summary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/13\/world\/europe\/hantavirus-outbreak-cases-france.html\">NYT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-summary\">The woman, who was a passenger on the MV Hondius, was breathing with the help of an artificial lung, officials in Paris said. A French woman with hantavirus who had traveled on the MV Hondius cruise ship was<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>critically ill on Wednesday, officials said, as the number of identified cases in the outbreak climbed to 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials around the world are monitoring disembarked travelers from the ship and any of their close contacts for symptoms of the virus. The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it had identified eleven cases of hantavirus, three in people who had died. It said nine of the cases were confirmed to be hantavirus and that two more were \u201cprobable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials at a briefing on Wednesday in Stockholm by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said that the patient in France was one of three people to be critically ill. Gianfranco Spiteri, an epidemic expert at the agency, said the woman did not have symptoms when she left the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-summary\">Xavier Lescure, an infectious disease specialist at Bichat Hospital in Paris, where the woman is being treated, had previously<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>said that she had severe symptoms and was breathing with the help of an artificial lung. Pamela Rendi-Wagner, the agency\u2019s director, noted that the virus had a long incubation period of six weeks. She recommended that the ship\u2019s passengers be held in quarantine for that length of time after disembarking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-summary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/13\/world\/europe\/hantavirus-outbreak-cases-france.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT The woman, who was a passenger on the MV Hondius, was breathing with the help of an artificial lung, officials in Paris said. A French woman with hantavirus who had traveled on the MV Hondius cruise ship was&nbsp;critically ill on Wednesday, officials said, as the number of identified cases in the outbreak climbed to [&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-11992","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\/11992","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=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11993,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions\/11993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}