By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - The Spanish Health Minister has confirmed that the final two evacuation flights for passengers of the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius ship have departed Tenerife, following the successful removal of 94 individuals from the vessel since its arrival on Sunday. In South Africa, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases is currently monitoring 62 potential contacts and treating a critically ill British national in Johannesburg. This containment effort follows the recent death of a Dutch passenger at OR Tambo International Airport. Supplementing this report, the BBC's Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes explains that while the Andes strain is primarily spread via rodent waste, its rare capacity for human-to-human transmission has now necessitated these unprecedented global quarantine measures... 

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By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - The Spanish Health Minister has confirmed that the final two evacuation flights for passengers of the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius ship have departed Tenerife, following the successful removal of 94 individuals from the vessel since its arrival on Sunday. In South Africa, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases is currently monitoring 62 potential contacts and treating a critically ill British national in Johannesburg. This containment effort follows the recent death of a Dutch passenger at OR Tambo International Airport. Supplementing this report, the BBC's Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes explains that while the Andes strain is primarily spread via rodent waste, its rare capacity for human-to-human transmission has now necessitated these unprecedented global quarantine measures...&nbsp;
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