"Respiratory person-to-person transmission is not new with the Andes hantavirus," Osterholm points out.
A French patient’s condition worsened overnight.
So far no cases have been identified in anyone other than passengers on the Dutch cruise ship.
Among those who debarked yesterday are 18 Americans, 1 of whom has tested positive for the virus.
The dermatophilosis rash has caused only mild cases in men who have sex with men in Europe.
Public health staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet passengers in Tenerife, Spain as they deboard a cruise ship that has been at the center of a hantavirus outbreak.
US officials sought to reassure Americans that they are responding to the outbreak.
Among the 8 suspected cases, only 3 have been confirmed by laboratory testing.
Of those polled, 58% considered leaving academic medicine in the next 2 years and 44% mulled moving abroad, while 10% had been contacted by non-US institutions.
While one patient is in an intensive care unit at a South African hospital and three passengers are dead, the other suspected case-patients are reported to have mild illness.
