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Airline Crew Member In Isolation After Passenger Death On Board
A KLM flight attendant has been hospitalized in Amsterdam after coming into contact with a passenger who later died from hantavirus. The passenger had been on board a KLM Boeing 777-300ER in Johannesburg after traveling from the MV Hondius cruise ship, where an outbreak occurred. The flight attendant is being tested for hantavirus and is in isolation. The incident has led to public health monitoring and tracing of passengers from the cruise ship. The outbreak has been linked to the Andes strain of hantavirus, which has been associated with rare person-to-person transmission. This was first reported by AeroTime.