May 12 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization said Tuesday that it did not believe a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a Dutch cruise ship that killed three people and infected at least nine others would turn into a more widespread flare-up.
Speaking at a news briefing in Madrid, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there was "no sign that we are seeing the start of a larger outbreak."
However, Ghebreyesus warned the joint briefing with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez that the work to deal with the outbreak from the ship was not over and that the long incubation period of the virus meant more infections could surface over the next several weeks.
Sanchez hailed as "a success" the evacuation operation, which saw more than 120 passengers from 12 countries around the world flown out of Tenerife on Sunday and Monday after the MV Hondius docked there.
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