Canadian national health agency confirms 1 positive hantavirus test
Canada's national health agency has confirmed a positive hantavirus test in one of four Canadians returning from a cruise ship outbreak. The affected individual, along with a traveling partner, is currently hospitalized in Victoria. The agency reassured the public that the overall risk remains low for the general population in Canada.
- ▪One of four Canadians returning from a cruise ship has tested positive for hantavirus.
- ▪The confirmed case is a couple in their 70s from the Yukon, currently hospitalized.
- ▪Three people have died since the hantavirus outbreak began on the cruise ship MV Hondius.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canada’s national health agency Sunday confirmed that one of four Canadians who returned home from a cruise ship hit with a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus. The Public Health Agency of Canada confirmed the positive test a day after the public health officer for the province of British Columbia said the person had received a “presumptive positive” but further testing would be conducted at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg. “One individual’s sample was confirmed positive for hantavirus,” the national agency said in a statement. A second individual who was a traveling partner of the confirmed case was confirmed negative, the statement said. Both people, a couple in their 70s from the Yukon, are in a hospital in Victoria.
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