HIBAPRESS – Agencies
The Italian Ministry of Health stated on Tuesday that tests are being conducted on biological samples taken from two people to verify whether they are infected with the Hanta virus. These include an Argentine tourist who was hospitalized with pneumonia and a man from Calabria who is voluntarily self-isolating.
The ministry said in a statement that the Argentine tourist left an infected area in her country on April 30 and traveled to Italy on a flight from Buenos Aires to Rome before heading to Sicily, where she was admitted to the hospital due to pneumonia. Local health authorities requested the tests on Tuesday and sent the tourist's sample to a hospital for infectious diseases in Rome, where it will be analyzed alongside a sample from the Italian citizen (25 years old) who had briefly been in contact with a Dutch woman who later died from the virus. In a separate development, a British tourist in Milan has been located and quarantined after British authorities warned that he was on the same flight with the Dutch woman, according to the Ministry of Health.
