# The World Health Organisation suspects some rare human to human transmission took place between close contacts on board a luxury cruise ship hit by seven confirmed or suspected hantavirus cases. A Dutch couple and a German national have died, while a British national is in intensive care in South Africa. The WHO says the focus now is to evacuate the sick passengers still onboard. It reiterates the risk to the wider public is low from a disease typically spread from infected rodents that only rarely passes between humans.
Human to human hantavirus transmission suspected on cruise