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Passengers board a plane bound for Eindhoven, after disembarking from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain,.

Video. Expert says hantavirus poses no risk 'as long as we contain it'

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Professor Luke O'Neill, from Trinity College Dublin, acknowledges the virus situation is "a bit scary" given the mortality rate. But he asks authorities to "reassure" people about its low danger, as it is a known strain of hantavirus, the Andes variant, and it has "not changed".

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