One of the patients was in intensive care in a South African hospital, the U.N.’s health agency said, and it was working with authorities to evacuate two other passengers with symptoms from the ship.
Authorities warn the public in northern Sweden about vole fever (hantavirus) amid a surge of bank voles. The illness can cause high fever and severe abdominal and back pain, and healthcare is urged to prepare.
Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says.
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