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Cruise ship hantavirus outbreak ‘not the start of an epidemic’: WHO

Cruise ship hantavirus outbreak 'not the start of an epidemic': WHO
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The World Health Organization insisted Thursday that a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic did not mark the beginning of a Covid-like crisis.

“This is not the start of an epidemic. This is not the start of a pandemic,” WHO epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention director Maria Van Kerkhove told reporters, insisting: “This is not Covid.”

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