First suspected ‘generation three’ hantavirus case as Italian who ‘sat alongside’ woman on Dutch KLM flight before she died develops symptoms – amid fears virus has MUTATED
The first suspected ‘generation-three’ hantavirus case has emerged, potentially signifying the first stage of a much wider outbreak of the deadly rat-borne disease. Samples from a quarantined Italian man have been sent to an infectious diseases hospital for testing after he boarded a Dutch KLM flight alongside a woman who later died from hantavirus. So …