Reacción a "Spain will receive the cruise ship with an outbreak of hantavirus to the Canary Islands, following a request from the WHO and the EU"

Pedro Ignacio Arcos González

Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Public Health, specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health, professor of Epidemiology and director of the Emergency and Disaster Research Unit at the University of Oviedo, and associate researcher at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

University of Oviedo

The Ministry’s decision is consistent with the low level of risk posed by the threat of the ship carrying the hantavirus and is in line with the provisions of the WHO’s International Health Regulations and the duty of international cooperation in the field of public health.

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