One person in Ontario’s Peel Region is in isolation after being exposed to a person infected with hantavirus, Ontario’s health minister said.
The individual, a visitor to Canada and not a local resident, is currently asymptomatic, Health Minister Sylvia Jones said at a press conference on May 11.
Jones confirmed that the person was isolating and being monitored by health officials. The case marks the third person in Ontario being monitored in connection with the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship first reported to the World Health Organization on May 2, though none of the three Ontario individuals have been confirmed infected….