A flight attendant with symptoms of hantavirus was hospitalized in Amsterdam.

A flight attendant of the Dutch national airline KLM was hospitalized with suspected infection with hantavirus. This was reported on May 7 by the RTL Nieuws agency, referring to the Ministry of Health of the Netherlands.

"The flight attendant has mild symptoms and is in isolation at the Amsterdam Medical Center, where she is being tested," the statement said.

The flight attendant could have contracted a dangerous virus in mid-April. One of the passengers was removed from her flight from Johannesburg on April 25 "due to poor health." The next day, on April 26, a 69-year-old woman died, as it turned out, from hantavirus.

On the same day, the third infected passenger of the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius was brought to the country by a medical evacuation flight.

According to the latest data from the World Health Organization, seven cases of hantavirus infection have been confirmed on board the ship, three people have died, one is in intensive care in South Africa, and two more require medical evacuation.

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France 24 TV channel reported on May 3 that an outbreak of hantavirus had occurred on board the M/V Hondius cruise ship en route from Argentina to Cape Verde, killing at least two people. Later, the press service of the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the number of infected people had increased to eight.

On May 5, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, epidemiologist, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Onishchenko ruled out the threat of the spread of hantaviruses in Russia. He noted that, if necessary, specialists will be able to cope with the situation.

The Minister of Health of the Republic of South Africa, Aaron Motsoaledi, said on May 6 that virologists in South Africa had identified the hantavirus strain that killed three passengers of the M/V Hondius cruise ship. According to him, this is the only strain out of 38 known that can be transmitted between humans.