Hantavirus and the lessons of Covid: Screening the EU's public health response

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The EU is actively responding to outbreaks of diseases like hantavirus, recently detected aboard a cruise ship in Spain. Experts emphasize the importance of a coordinated public health response, similar to lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In this episode we explore how the EU deals with outbreaks of disease. The latest scare for Europeans has been the hantavirus, detected on cruise ship the MV Hondius, which subsequently docked in Spain. Experts have stressed that this virus is not like Covid-19 and is much less infectious. Nevertheless, the EU's civil protection mechanism was triggered, and several member states took part in evacuation flights from Tenerife in the Canary Islands.