Australian Health Minister Mark Butler said on Thursday that the quarantine period for passengers from the Hondius, the cruise ship that was afflicted by a hantavirus outbreak in April, will be extended from June 5 to June 23.
Butler said the decision to extend the quarantine was based on advice from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and “our own health officials.”
“The incubation period for hantavirus can be up to 42 days, so World Health Organization advice is that quarantine arrangements remain in place of some type or another for those 42 days,” he said, without explaining why the quarantine period was originally for only half that…
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