Canada’s chief medical officer of well being says 26 individuals throughout the nation are being contacted by public well being authorities to watch for hantavirus signs, although they’re deemed “low threat.”
Dr. Joss Reimer says the entire passengers shared flights with somebody with hantavirus, but it surely’s believed they didn’t have shut contact with anybody who was sick or sit close to them.
She says European public well being officers had deemed them to be at no threat, however Canada is taking a “precautionary method and we’ve deemed them to be minimal or low threat versus no threat.”
The Public Well being Company of Canada just isn’t suggesting the low-risk individuals isolate, however Reimer says provincial and territorial public well being businesses might achieve this as they do extra detailed threat assessments.
Reimer says 9 individuals have been categorized as high-risk contacts and are isolating in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia as a result of they have been both passengers on the affected cruise ship or had shut contact with somebody contaminated with hantavirus on a flight.
She says nobody in Canada has proven any signs of hantavirus.
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