Canada’s chief public health officer says 26 people across the country are being contacted after sharing flights with passengers linked to the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship, though officials consider their risk low.
The 26 individuals were being asked to self-monitor for symptoms of hantavirus as part of a “precautionary approach” to the outbreak, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Joss Reimer said during a press conference on May 14.
Reimer said that the individuals did not have any interactions with an infected person on their flights and were “reported to us by European authorities as being no risk,” but Canada has “decided to take a precautionary approach and consider them to be low or minimal risk.”…