In South Africa, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced that the number of individuals potentially exposed to hantavirus has risen to 97. Health teams, collaborating with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), are actively tracking these contacts, which include passengers, healthcare workers, and airline staff associated with infected individuals. Of the 90 contacts reached, 86 are located in Gauteng and 4 in the Western Cape. Only one contact from the Western Cape exhibited symptoms, but tests have returned negative results. This situation follows two confirmed cases of the Andes strain of hantavirus, which is transmissible between humans, linked to passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship that traveled from Ushuaia, Argentina. The WHO has reported 11 global cases of hantavirus, with three fatalities, highlighting the seriousness of this outbreak.