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{"text":[[{"start":10.85,"text":"Two cruise ship passengers have tested positive for the rat-borne hantavirus after being evacuated from the vessel hit by an outbreak, underlining the global effort required to contain the often lethal illness."}],[{"start":23.4,"text":"Hantavirus was detected in passengers from the US and France hours after they were removed from the MV Hondius ship in the Spanish Canary Islands and flown home, according to authorities in the two countries."}],[{"start":36.65,"text":"On Sunday 94 of the 147 people on board the ship were evacuated and repatriated to several countries, where they will go into quarantine for at least a week and possibly much longer depending on symptoms and contact with confirmed cases."}],[{"start":52.4,"text":"Negative tests elsewhere, however, mean there are still no confirmed cases of anyone contracting hantavirus outside the vessel, reinforcing a message from health officials that the outbreak poses a low risk to the public."}],[{"start":null,"text":"
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Some passengers from the cruise ship hit by the rat-borne hantavirus are evacuated in the Canary Islands
"}],[{"start":65.35,"text":"Disease experts have said the measures taken by authorities are correct. “The [official] approach is stringent because this virus can cause severe disease, but the risk to the general population is very low,” said Prof Sir Peter Horby, director of the University of Oxford’s Pandemic Sciences Institute."}],[{"start":83.39999999999999,"text":"“We know there can be limited person-to-person transmission following close and prolonged contact with an infected person, but that public health measures can readily stop transmission and bring the outbreak to an end.”"}],[{"start":95.89999999999999,"text":"Three Hondius passengers have died during the outbreak and the latest positive tests bring the number of additional infections, either confirmed or suspected, to seven. Five of them are cruise passengers who left the ship earlier when it stopped at the remote Atlantic island of St Helena."}],[{"start":112.69999999999999,"text":"In the US, the Department of Health and Human Services said one evacuee had tested “mildly positive” for hantavirus while another had “mild symptoms”. All the American passengers from the ship are going into quarantine at medical facilities in Nebraska."}],[{"start":128.64999999999998,"text":"In France, health minister Stéphanie Rist said the passenger who tested positive had “experienced a worsening of symptoms overnight” and was now in a specialised hospital with strict controls to prevent the spread of the virus."}],[{"start":142.7,"text":"The UK has evacuated 20 British nationals, a German resident of the country and a Japanese passenger, all of whom are now being monitored at a hospital in north-west England. The authorities would determine where the people could suitably isolate for up to 45 days with regular testing, the UK Health Security Agency said. "}],[{"start":161.5,"text":"Around the world, health officials continue to monitor people who came into contact with infected passengers who left the ship before it reached Tenerife on Sunday."}],[{"start":170,"text":"Rist said 22 French people had been on planes with a Dutch woman who left the Hondius in St Helena and died in Johannesburg on April 26. “What is important is to act straight away to break the chains of transmission,” Rist said."}],[{"start":185.6,"text":"Spain reported negative tests from two people in hospital in the country who had also been on planes with the Dutch woman. Her husband died on the Hondius on April 11."}],[{"start":203.6,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1778499130_1823.mp3"}