Minister Motsoaledi says there is no risk of a hantavirus outbreak in South Africa [SOUND]

# Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi says South Africa is not at risk of a hantavirus outbreak. Ninety-seven contacts in the country are linked to the hantavirus outbreak on the Dutch MV Hondius cruise ship, which resulted in the deaths of three people. Health officials in Johannesburg first detected the virus when treating a British man who had disembarked the ship. That was some three weeks after the first passenger, a Dutchman, had died. Motsoaledi says the virus does not spread easily between people: