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Greece has deployed an Air Force aircraft to repatriate a 70-year-old national exposed to hantavirus aboard a cruise ship that killed at least three people — hours after Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis was forced to retract an alarming social media post that sparked public panic over the mission. Mr. Georgiadis apologized for initially stating the citizen was "suffering from hantavirus," clarifying he had misspoken and that the man is fully asymptomatic. The passenger was on board the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius when a hantavirus outbreak struck the vessel before it docked in Tenerife, Spain. The Greek Air Force flight transported the passenger from Eindhoven, Netherlands, to Elefsina military airbase, accompanied by a physician, a nurse and the president of the National Public Health Organization. He will be transferred by ambulance to a negative-pressure isolation chamber at Attikon University Hospital for a mandatory 45-day quarantine. Mr. Georgiadis dismissed critics who called the repatriation a public health risk as "toxic and conspiratorial," adding: "Greece never leaves anyone behind." Health authorities stressed that hantavirus spreads primarily through contact with infected rodents and carries minimal risk of human-to-human transmission. Διαβάστε περισσότερα στο iefimerida.gr Greece has deployed an Air Force aircraft to repatriate a 70-year-old national exposed to hantavirus aboard a cruise ship that killed at least three people — hours after Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis was forced to retract an alarming social media post that sparked public panic over the mission. Mr. Georgiadis apologized for initially stating the citizen was "suffering from hantavirus," clarifying he had misspoken and that the man is fully asymptomatic. The passenger was on board the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius when a hantavirus outbreak struck the vessel before it docked in Tenerife, Spain. The Greek Air Force flight transported the passenger from Eindhoven, Netherlands, to Elefsina military airbase, accompanied by a physician, a nurse and the president of the National Public Health Organization. He will be transferred by ambulance to a negative-pressure isolation chamber at Attikon University Hospital for a mandatory 45-day quarantine. Mr. Georgiadis dismissed critics who called the repatriation a public health risk as "toxic and conspiratorial," adding: "Greece never leaves anyone behind." Health authorities stressed that hantavirus spreads primarily through contact with infected rodents and carries minimal risk of human-to-human transmission. Διαβάστε περισσότερα στο iefimerida.gr
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