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Italian hospital to screen samples of man in hantavirus quarantine

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12-05-2026 | 10:28

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Italian hospital to screen samples of man in hantavirus quarantine

Italy's top infectious diseases hospital said on Tuesday it would examine biological samples from a man in quarantine having come into contact with a woman who died of Hantavirus.

The ANSA news agency had previously reported that the man - a 25-year-old from the southern Calabria region - had been hospitalized.

He was briefly on the ⁠same plane as a woman who later died from the virus. The woman was disembarked from the KLM flight before it took off from Johannesburg.

ANSA reported earlier that the man was being transferred to the Spallanzani hospital in Rome, but the hospital later clarified that it was only awaiting his biological samples in order to analyze them.

Hantavirus is primarily spread by ⁠rodents but can be transmitted between people in rare cases, according to the World Health Organization. It usually begins with flu-like symptoms, such as fatigue and fever, one to eight weeks after exposure.

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