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hantavirus infections. Treatment is supportive and based on symptoms, such as hospital care and respiratory
treatment for hantavirus infections. The CDC recommends supportive care to treat symptoms that could include
treatment. A final suspected patient had a fever but is currently asymptomatic. The rare but serious infection can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in which initial flu-like symptoms
symptoms can easily be mistaken for the flu. HFRS usually develops within a week or two after exposure. ## How is the hantavirus treated and prevented? There is no specific therapy for a hantavirus infection
Hantavirus is not spread in the outside world through everyday social contact like walking in public spaces, shops, workplaces, or schools, the [UKHSA](https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/05/what-is-hantavirus-how-is-it-transmitted-and-what-are-the-symptoms/) says. Symptoms usually appear between two to four weeks
treatment, is also confirmed to have the virus. Hantavirus has not been confirmed in the Dutch woman's husband or the other deceased passenger - a German national who passed away on 2 May. Testing
hantavirus have arrived in the Netherlands for treatment, operator Oceanwide Expeditions has said. A third passenger in a stable condition was on board an evacuation flight that has been delayed, the operator added
symptoms of hantavirus, a disease primarily found in rodents, is understood to be improving. The passenger was medically evacuated on 27 April to Johannesburg, and remains in intensive care. The UK prime minister said
symptoms can appear up to eight weeks after exposure, "the passengers could have been incubating the disease if they acquired it within the country or elsewhere in the world," Juan Facundo Petrina, director of epidemiology