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    <description>Source-verified updates on the MV Hondius Andes hantavirus cluster.</description>
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      <title>2026-05-07 — WHO Director-General confirmed 5 lab-confirmed Andes hantavirus infections and 3 deaths linked to the MV Hondius cluster.</title>
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      <description>WHO Director-General confirmed 5 lab-confirmed Andes hantavirus infections and 3 deaths linked to the MV Hondius cluster. Only one death — a Dutch woman who died in Johannesburg — has been PCR-confirmed as caused by hantavirus; the other two deaths remain under investigation. Switzerland has been upgraded to a confirmed case after the Swiss government confirmed a male passenger is being treated in Zurich. Germany has been reclassified from probable case to death under investigation — the deceased was a woman, contradicting initial social media reports. Sources: WHO DG Briefing May 7, CNN, Al Jazeera, Wikipedia.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>2026-05-07 — Initial dataset load.</title>
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      <description>Initial dataset load. 15 locations ingested from MV Hondius cluster analysis. HV-014 (Israel) flagged as analystOnly pending verification. 5 social claims analyzed and classified.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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