B.C. health officials update public on rare hantavirus exposure cases - BERITAJA

British Columbia’s apical expert is group to supply an update Saturday connected a group of Canadians isolating aft returning from an Antarctic cruise vessel linked to a uncommon strain of hantavirus.

Dr. Bonnie Henry is scheduled to speak Saturday astatine 11 a.m. Pacific Time about Canadians isolating successful B.C. pursuing their return from the MV Hondius cruise ship.

The update comes aft the World Health Organization identified the Andes strain of hantavirus successful passengers aboard the ship. Unlike about forms of hantavirus, the Andes strain could dispersed from personification to person.

The WHO has said the wide nationalist consequence remains low.

Canada’s main nationalist wellness officer, Joss Reimer, said earlier this week that 26 group crossed Canada are being monitored by nationalist wellness authorities for symptoms aft sharing flights pinch a confirmed hantavirus case.

Reimer said those passengers are not considered adjacent contacts because of wherever they were seated connected the flights.

Nine travellers successful Canada, successful Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, person been classified arsenic high-risk vulnerability cases and instructed to self-isolate.

Four of those travellers are isolating successful British Columbia, wherever Henry antecedently warned they were entering a “very captious shape of the incubation period.”

Ontario wellness officials person said 3 passengers isolating successful the state are not being tested because screening would not yet nutrient reliable results. Alberta wellness officials said 2 travellers location are isolating astatine home.

Saturday’s briefing will supply much clarity connected the information of the B.C. travellers.

More to come…

–with files from BERITAJA