{"id":5652,"date":"2026-05-15T11:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:52:29","slug":"british-man-hauled-out-of-bar-when-he-was-meant-to-be-in-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=5652","title":{"rendered":"British man hauled out of bar when he was meant to be in quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>What a way to interrupt a drink&#8230;<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>A British man was hauled out of bar after it was discovered that he was meant to be in quarantine for hantavirus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Hantavirus remains in the global headlines following the outbreak on a cruise ship which has led to three deaths and number of other cases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Stakes were heightened after the World Health Organisation confirmed that the strain of hantavirus was human transmissible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$?--><template id=\"B:0\"\/><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Beyond those on the ship, anyone who had come into close proximity with people on the cruise were also put on a 42-day isolation period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>This was the case for a British man in his 60s and his travelling companion who had been on the same flight as Mirjam Schilperoord, 69, who\u00a0died after flying from St Helena to Johannesburg\u00a0when she contracted the virus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>She was the wife of the first man to die, Leo, 70, who boarded the MV Hondius and went birdwatching at a rubbish tip on a remote Argentinian island.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The pair were apprehended in Milan and taken to Sacco Hospital where they were told they must be quarantined until 6 June as part of a 42-day isolation period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>There have now been 11 reported cases of the rare disease, nine of which have been confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$?--><template id=\"B:1\"\/><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>There people have died and another is in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#British #man #hauled #bar #meant #quarantine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a way to interrupt a drink&#8230; A British man was hauled out of bar after it was discovered that he was meant to be in quarantine for hantavirus. Hantavirus remains in the global headlines following the outbreak on a cruise ship which has led to three deaths and number of other cases. Stakes were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2494,1852,5554,5779,774,5780,923,5781],"class_list":{"0":"post-5652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-bar","9":"tag-british","10":"tag-hantavirus","11":"tag-hauled","12":"tag-man","13":"tag-meant","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-quarantine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}