邮轮暴发罕见汉坦病毒疫情引发关注

Andes virus offers a test of the world’s crisis-response system KAI KUPFERSCHMIDT W hen Lucille Blumberg received the email from a U.K. colleague on 1 May, she sprang into action. It was the start of a holiday weekend in South Africa, where Blumberg works as an infectious disease specialist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, but the news was concerning: A cruise ship passenger had been airlifted from the U.K. territory of Ascension Island to a hospital near her with what appeared to be severe pneumonia. Could it be a shipboard outbreak of legionella or even a case of avian influenza acquired on one of the islands where the ship stopped? …