Ontario’s chief medical officer of health says two Ontario residents who were on a cruise ship with passengers infected with hantavirus are in good spirits, showing no symptoms as they isolate in their rural community. Dr. Kieran Moore says the couple, who live in the Grey Bruce Public Health Unit area, are being monitored for 45 days, the longest potential incubation period for the virus. He says the couple disembarked on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena in late April, then flew to Johannesburg, South Africa, where an infected person was also on their flight, exposing them in two settings. Moore says there is little to no risk to the general public in Ontario and the couple remains asymptomatic. Four other Canadians remain on the cruise ship, where eight cases — including three deaths — have been reported in an outbreak of the rodent-borne Andes virus, the only hantavirus known to allow limited human-to-human transmission. Moore says none of the Canadians still on board are from Ontario #Hantavirus #Ontario #Canada