Spread by rodents, hantavirus is a rare virus for which no vaccines or specific treatments exist
A case of hantavirus, which recently sparked international alarm, has been detected in a Franco-Argentine national who holidayed in France in July before being put in isolation in Spain, the French health ministry said on Thursday.
The patient had few symptoms and now has none, the ministry said, adding that “all measures” have been put in place to “trace the stages” of the person’s journey.
The ministry said experts were to meet on Thursday to determine the next action to be taken and that Europe-wide coordination was being established.
The patient’s infection with the Andes strain of the virus, the only one transmissible between humans, was confirmed on Thursday.
