{"id":34233,"date":"2026-05-11T14:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34233"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:43:39","slug":"condition-of-british-man-with-hantavirus-is-gradually-improving-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/condition-of-british-man-with-hantavirus-is-gradually-improving-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Condition of British man with hantavirus is gradually improving: SA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">The condition of a British \u200bman who was admitted to a \u200chospital in Johannesburg, South Africa (SA) after falling ill with hantavirus aboard a luxury cruise ship is gradually improving, \u200bSA Health Ministry Spokesperson said \u200bon Monday.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The British patient is clinically improving but \u2060still ill,&#8221; the Spokesperson Foster Mohale told \u200b<i>Reuters<\/i>. &#8220;This means his condition is improving, \u200bgradually so.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The man was medically evacuated to South Africa on April 27 after presenting with a fever, \u200bshortness of breath and signs of \u200bpneumonia. He disembarked from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV \u200cHondius \u2060at Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Hantaviruses are rodent-borne viruses that can infect people and cause illness.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The strain identified \u200bon the \u200bship is \u2060the Andes hantavirus, which typically circulates in Argentina and Chile. \u200bThe MV Hondius set off \u200bfrom \u2060Argentina and was carrying mostly British, American and Spanish passengers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Three people have died since \u2060the \u200bstart of the outbreak &#8211; \u200ba Dutch couple and a German national.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34009,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34233","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Hantaviruses are rodent-borne viruses that can infect people and cause illness.","published_date":"","news_description":"Hantaviruses are rodent-borne viruses that can infect people and cause illness.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34234,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34233\/revisions\/34234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}