The passengers and crew of the cruise ship who contracted hantavirus have been repatriated to their home countries. And the WHO urged periodic health monitoring as well as a 42-day quarantine.
Dr. Dicky Budiman is an epidemiologist affiliated with Griffith University in Brisbane and Yarsi University in Jakarta.
He agreed that hantavirus was a low risk to society and would not become a pandemic. But in the case of a threat to humans, this virus can cause a person to become seriously ill and then die. He therefore suggests that in addition to avoiding rodents, such as rats, society needs to also pay attention to the health of the environment and our planet.
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