Thomas Hoffman

I mean, as much as we know about the hunter virus and also this specific strain of the hunter virus, usually it transmits only from animals to humans.

Only this strain, this understrain, can transmit also from humans to humans.

But then only when very close contact is given.

I mean, as we know, the ship has been sailing now for five weeks.

We saw maybe, if you include the case, the recent case now,

something like seven or eight cases after five weeks of sailing in a confined space in a cruise ship.

So it confirms our hypothesis that it's really not very transmissible.

And that's why we assess the risk goals for Europe at this point very low, because all the passengers will be informed, their local public health authorities will be informed

how to monitor the situation.

And if all those procedures are in place, the risk remains very low.

Well, I mean, yes, there can of course, I mean, we expect that there will be further cases.

already now, maybe from passengers who disembarked earlier, also maybe still in the future more.

But it's unlikely that those cases transmit further because the human-to-human transmission remains rare for the hantavirus.

strain.