Hantavirus is spreading fast; after infecting patients on the cruise, the virus has also affected paramedics. The news triggered more fear after a Dutch hospital quarantined 12 staff members in a...

Twelve healthcare workers at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen have been placed under precautionary quarantine after an error in handling a hantavirus patient evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship. The hospital confirmed that standard blood-taking procedures were used instead of the stricter infection-control protocol required for the virus.