Hantavirus Cruise Ship: Passengers to Quarantine in Perth

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Multiple people died on the hantavirus-hit ship with 88 passengers and 61 crew.

Australian passengers will quarantine in Perth for at least three weeks as a precaution.

Five Australians and one New Zealander will be transported to Western Australia and quarantined.

The federal government will control quarantine and return arrangements.

The quarantine facility has beds, a couch, and a small kitchen.

The operation involves multiple countries and will be updated once flights are finalized.

Passengers will be quarantined at the Bullsbrook Centre for National Resilience near Perth.

The lengthy incubation period may require quarantine beyond three weeks.

The situation will be monitored and advice will be given on what to do after three weeks.

Passengers will be taken to the Bullsbrook Centre, originally built for COVID quarantine.

The incubation period is 42 days, but the risk of transmission drops after a few weeks.

No apology is made for the quarantine decision.

This is one of the stronger responses to the situation.

Six passengers from the infected cruise ship will land in Perth.

Passengers will be transferred to the quarantine facility when they land.

The government's primary responsibility is to keep the community safe and healthy.

The passengers will be tested while at the facility.

The Australian Medical Association is confident the government's plans will limit potential exposure.

Transmission of the hantavirus requires close contact and is not easily spread.

The Bullsbrook community is not at greater risk than anywhere else.

The quarantine facility was set up at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The decision is a precautionary approach to keep the community safe.

The passengers do not currently have any hantavirus symptoms.

The situation is terrible for the passengers, and sympathy is given to them.

The government wants to make the quarantine period as comfortable as possible.

The cost involved in the quarantine process is not detailed.

Hantavirus is not the next COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization.

Infectious diseases expert Glenn Marsh says there is no need to panic.

The virus does not transmit easily between people.

Evacuating the cruise ship will be a long and complex operation.

The virus does not have pandemic potential, but it remains a serious situation.

People typically get infected with hantavirus through contact with infected rodents.

Professor Marsh says the virus is not highly infectious and won't spread well.

People are more aware of the potential of the next pandemic.

The symptoms of hantavirus can take between one and eight weeks to emerge.

Depending on the type of hantavirus, symptoms can include fever and headache.

Some types of the virus can kill as many as half of those infected.

There is no specific antiviral treatment or vaccine for hantavirus.

It's not known which type of hantavirus the people on the ship have contracted.

The evacuated passengers will not come into contact with the general population.

The time it takes for people to show symptoms can be quite long.

People aren't really infectious to other people unless they're showing symptoms.

The virus is suspected of causing the deaths of three people on the MV Hondius cruise ship.

The ship was carrying 88 passengers and 61 crew.

A rodent-borne illness is suspected of causing the deaths of three cruise ship passengers.

On April 11, a passenger died on board, and his body and wife were disembarked on April 24.

On April 27, Oceanwide Expeditions was informed that the man's wife had died.

Both passengers were Dutch, according to the Oceanwide Expeditions website.

On the same day, another passenger had to be medically evacuated to South Africa.

On May 2, a German passenger died on the ship.

A French woman evacuated from the cruise ship tested positive for hantavirus.

Additional reporting is provided by Courtney Withers and AP.

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