Published on
20/05/2026 - 8:00 GMT+2
On Monday, the emergency department at São Francisco Xavier Hospital in Lisbon admitted a first suspected case of hantavirus, according to public broadcaster RTP.
According to the Directorate-General of Health (DGS), in a response to the Portuguese state television channel, the patient is an adult Portuguese national with flu-like symptoms who travelled by plane "in the context of the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship with confirmed cases".
The DGS stated that all procedures were followed, the first of which was to refer the patient to the designated Curry Cabral reference hospital, which also acted as the reference hospital for COVID-19 and was the facility that admitted the first infected patient in Lisbon.
