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MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spanish authorities said Friday a woman had been tested for suspected hantavirus after travelling on the same flight as a Dutch woman who stayed on the MV Hondius cruise ship and later died from the virus.
The woman has “symptoms mainly related to coughing while she was in her family home” in the eastern city of Alicante, Spanish Secretary of State for Health Javier Padilla told journalists.
She was placed in “an isolation room” in hospital, which carried out a PCR test was carried out, which will be analysed at the National Microbiology Centre, said Padilla. Those results, “we hope to have in the first 24 hours”, he added.
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