Two Singapore residents who had been on board a hantavirus-hit cruise ship have tested negative to the rare respiratory disease, according to Singapore’s Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA).The two men aged 65 and 67 had been on the MV Hondius and also the same flight as a confirmed hantavirus case from St Helena to Johannesburg on April 25, the CDA said a day earlier. The confirmed case did not travel to the city state and died in South Africa.The CDA’s National Public Health Laboratory conducted testing with “multiple samples collected from the individuals”, that confirmed that hantavirus, including the Andes virus, was “not detected”, it said in a statement late on Friday.
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SAT · 2026-05-09 · 01:39 GMTBRIEF NSR-2026-0509-74804
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Singapore pair test negative for hantavirus after cruise ship outbreak
Two Singapore residents who were on a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak have tested negative for the disease. The men, aged 65 and 67, had traveled on the MV Hondius and the same flight as a confirmed hantavirus case from St Helena to Johannesburg on April 25.
Agence France-PresseSouth China Morning PostFiled 2026-05-09 · 01:39 GMTLean · Center-RightRead · 1 min
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Two Singapore residents who were on a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak have tested negative for the disease. The men, aged 65 and 67, had traveled on the MV Hondius and the same flight as a confirmed hantavirus case from St Helena to Johannesburg on April 25. The confirmed case, who did not travel to Singapore, died in South Africa. Singapore's Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) announced the negative test results on Friday, stating that multiple samples collected from the individuals confirmed no detection of hantavirus, including the Andes virus. The testing was conducted by the CDA's National Public Health Laboratory.
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Hantavirus, including Andes virus, was not detected in multiple samples from the two individuals.
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The confirmed hantavirus case did not travel to Singapore and died in South Africa.
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The two individuals, aged 65 and 67, were on the MV Hondius and the same flight as a confirmed hantavirus case.
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Two Singapore residents who were on a hantavirus-hit cruise ship have tested negative for the disease.
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