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McCAUGHEY: Infection-control standards doomed hantavirus cruise ship
This mad scramble was preventable. The answer is to rigorously follow infection prevention principles.
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On April 1, 114 guests and 61 crew members, unaware of a killer virus among them, boarded the MV Hondius. That ship has earned the moniker “Ship of Fools.” Because of the top brass’s reckless disregard for infection-control principles, the ship’s passengers and thousands of people worldwide have been exposed to the rare Andes strain of hantavirus, a disease found in rat urine and feces with a 40% mortality rate.
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